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Title: "San Roque - Invoked Against Cancer, Wounds, Plague, Smallpox." St. Roque, also known as St. Roch, was born into a nobleman's family in France in 1295, marked with a red cross on his chest. During his twenties, he lost his parents, gave away his riches to the poor, became a disciple of St.Francis, and began to serve victims of the plague in Northern Italy. He cured them with the sign of the cross.  Everywhere he went, the terrible scourge disappeared before his miraculous power. He fell victim to the plague and retreated to the woods where at the brink of death, he was saved by a dog who brought him bread daily and licked his wounds. One day, the dog's owner followed the dog, found Roch, brought him to his home and nursed him back to health. When Roch eventually returned in disguise to his native France during wartime, he was arrested as a spy and thrown into a dungeon. Five years later, abandoned and captive, he lay dying. A radiance surrounded him and an angelic hand wrote on