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4 unusual facts about Saint Roch


Macabebe, Pampanga

Barangay San Roque celebrates fiesta every 1st Sunday of May in honor of Saint Roch but the Western celebrates his death every August 16 (13)

Ramanathichanputhur

The other part of this village is South Ramanathichanputhur blessed with Saint Roch (Arokianathar) Church attached to Ramanathichanputhur Parish.

San Felipe, Zambales

The local parish of the Catholic Church is dedicated to San Roque.

Śródka, Poznań

Since 7 December 2007 Śródka has also been linked with Ostrów Tumski by a footbridge ("Bishop Jordan's Bridge", Most biskupa Jordana), constructed from the former main span of the now reconstructed St. Roch road bridge which crosses the Warta further south.


Essen Minster

Another sculpture from the early sixteenth century is the sculpture of the Holy Helper, Saint Roch on the north wall of the Minster, created shortly after 1500.

Pedro Roldán

Altarpiece of the Entombment of Christ, Saint George, Saint Roch, and the Virgin of Charity (Entierro de Cristo, San Jorge, San Roque y Virgen de la Caridad, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville.

Votive statue of the Holy Trinity

The statue consists of a high pedestal with gigantic volutes, where is five statues of the patron saint of plague: Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Rosalia.


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Antoine Plamondon

He went to school in Saint-Roch, a suburb of Quebec City, after which he was apprenticed to Joseph Légaré (1795–1855), a picture restorer and amateur painter.

Maurice Pollack

Born in Kanele, Kiev, in Ukraine, he arrived in Canada in 1902, and settled in Quebec City, where he opened a department store at the age of 20 years, in the Saint-Roch district of Québec City.

Mékinac Lake

Just before the bridge over the Mekinac River, 4.7 km after the village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, turn on Saint-Joseph path towards Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, Quebec (municipality of Trois-Rives, Quebec), a legendary authentic village that was developed through forestry, agriculture and tourist activities.

The distance between the Mekinac bridge (Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac) and the dam of Lake Mekinac (Trois-Rives) is 18.4 km (measured by road).

Pierre Février

Born at Abbeville on 21 March 1696, he arrived in Paris in 1720 and served as titular organist of two churches on Saint-Honoré street: the Jacobins' church (destroyed at the Revolution) and Saint-Roch (still standing).

Quebec Route 159

Its northern terminus is in Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac at the junction of Route 155, and the southern terminus is at the junction of Route 138 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade.

Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec

The first settlers arrived near the 1770s and built a flour mill on a township located alongside the Rivière de l'Achigan.

Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, Quebec

The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.

Saint-Roch, Paris

13 Vendémiaire was one such occasion, this was pivotal in the rise of Napoleon.

William Henry Baldwin

The partnership lasted for 5 years with Baldwin moving to Saint-Roch and acquiring a bankrupt shipyard.