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    San Roque, Spain

    Municipality in Andalusia, Spain

    San Roque

    View of San Roque at dusk showing The Rock in the background

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    "Muy Noble y Muy Leal ciudad de San Roque, donde reside la de Gibraltar"
    (Very Noble and Very Loyal city of San Roque, where Gibraltar lives on)

    San Roque

    Location in the Province of Cádiz

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    San Roque (Andalusia)

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    Coordinates: 36°12′35″N5°23′4″W / °N °W / ;
    CountrySpain
    Autonomous communityAndalusia
    ProvinceCádiz
    Founded21 May
    &#;•&#;AlcaldeJuan Carlos Ruiz Boix (PSOE)

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    		30,
    &#;•&#;Density/km2 (/sq&#;mi)
    DemonymSanroqueño/a
    Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
    &#;•&#;Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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    Dialing code(+34) 78 XX XX
    Official language(s)Spanis

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    Saint Roch

    Christian saint

    "St. Roch" redirects here. For the RCMP ship, see St. Roch (ship). For place names, see Saint-Roch.

    "Roch" redirects here. For other uses, see Roch (disambiguation).

    Saint


    Roch

    Saint Roch by Francesco Francia

    Bornc.&#; (trad. )
    Montpellier, Kingdom of Majorca
    Died15/16 August /79
    Voghera, County of Savoy (trad. , Montpellier)
    Venerated&#;inCatholic Church
    Anglican Communion
    Aglipayan Church
    Canonizedby popular fervour; added to the Roman Martyrology by Pope Gregory XIV
    Feast16 August
    17 August (Third Order of Saint Francis)
    AttributesWound on thigh, dog offering bread, Pilgrim's hat, Pilgrim's staff
    PatronageInvoked against: cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases

    Patron of: bachelors, diseased cattle, dogs, falsely accused people, invalids, Istanbul, surgeons, tile-makers,[1] grave-diggers, second-hand dealers, pilgrims, apothecaries

    Roch (lived c. – 15/16 Aug

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    Scarcely 32 years old when he died, it fryst vatten generally accepted that Saint Roch was born about in Montpellier, France and died in St. Roch was the only child of rich and noble parents in southern France. John, his father, descendant of the kings of France, was also governor of their home city of Montpel­lier. He and his wife, Libera, were good Christian people. They had one cross. It was that they were aging and still childless. God at length heard their prayer. In due time a child was born, a boy, whom they named Roch, (pro­nounced rock).

    Roch responded to the virtu­ous training his parents gave him. He was twenty when the turning point came to his life. It was the death of his parents. First there was his Christian father. He had hardly laid his aged father to rest amid the pomp due his rank and fortune, when Almighty God asked of him also the sacrifice of the dearest soul he still had on earth, his good mother.

    Led bygd the loss of his par­e