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Sts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague Saints
Partial source packet from The Catholic Encyclopedia article on Roch and the Caxton/Ellis Golden Legend tradition for Sebastian ยท William Caxton; modernized by F. S. Ellis for Golden Legend portions (1483; 1900)
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Source: Partial public-domain source packet for Sts. Roch and Sebastian. Main sources: Gregory Cleary, "St. Roch," The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 13 (1912), and the Caxton/Ellis Golden Legend public-domain tradition for Sebastian. Coverage: Partial. Roch from a public-domain encyclopedia summary of the Diedo-shaped legend; Sebastian from the Golden Legend/Caxton tradition. Not a complete edition of Diedo's Vita Sancti Rochi
St. Roch
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St. Roch
Deprived of his parents when about twenty years old, he distributed his fortune among the poor, handed over to his uncle the government of Montpellier, and in the disguise of a mendicant pilgrim, set out for Italy, but stopped at Aquapendente, which was stricken by the plague, and devoted himself to the plague-stricken, curing them with the sign of the cross.
Everywhere the terrible scourge disappeared before his miraculous power.
At Piacenza, he himself was stricken with the plague.
In 1414, during the Council of Constance, the plague having broken out in that city, the Fathers of the Council ordered public prayers and processions in honour of the saint, and immediately the plague ceased.
St. Sebastian
Diocletian, cruel e
St. Sebastian
mperor of Rome, commanded that Sebastian should be led into the middle of a field and there bound to a stake, and that his archers should shoot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is full of pricks.
Then Irene, the widow of St. Castulus, came by night to bury him, and found him alive, and brought him to her house, and there healed him.