Author

Jacobus de Voragine; Francesco Diedo tradition; later plague devotion

Posthumous or imagined likeness of Sts. Roch and Sebastian. — Posthumous or imagined likeness of Sts. Roch and Sebastian. Source · Public domain

Sts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague Saints

Jacobus de Voragine; Francesco Diedo tradition; later plague devotion

c. 1260; Roch tradition c. 1478 · Medieval · Hagiography

Sts. Roch and Sebastian became plague saints through two different imaginative routes.

high medical relevanceSaints Illness / Body Death / Mortality