Church of St. Roch

There is also a Catholic saint who became famous as a protector against the plague.

Roch
fr. Roch de Montpellier

Birth	(1295 ) Montpellier
Death	(1327 ) Montpellier or Voghera, Pavia, Lombardy
Revered	Catholic Church
Canonized
In the face	miracle worker And Catholic saint [d]
Day of Remembrance	August 16
Patron	patients with serious illnesses, pilgrims, surgeons, livestock, Montpellier
Attributes	leg ulcer, dog with bread in mouth, pilgrim's staff
Asceticism	miraculous healings
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Biography

Historical information about the life of Saint Roch is contained exclusively in traditions, including those set out in the Golden Legend. Some modern historians consider the figure of Saint Roch to be ahistorical, and his life to be based on the lives of earlier saints.

According to legend, Saint Roch was born in Montpellier around 1295 in the family of the city's governor. Even at birth, he was marked with a special sign on his chest in the shape of a red cross. When the young man was about 20 years old, he lost his parents, after which he distributed all his property to the poor and went to Rome on a pilgrimage. Arriving in Italy, Roch discovered that a plague epidemic was raging in the country, after which he began to travel around the country, caring for those suffering from the plague and healing them with prayer and the sign of the cross. Tradition reports miracles of healing performed by him in Acquapendente, Cesena, Rimini, Novara, Rome, Mantua, Modena and Parma. In Piacenza, Roch himself contracted the plague, was expelled from the city, and went to die in an abandoned forest hut. According to legend, the dog of a nobleman named Gotthard brought St. Bread was given to Roch, who was dying of hunger. Soon the saint was healed of the plague, and Gotthard became his assistant.

After recovery, Saint Roch returned to his homeland, where he refused to reveal his name, and was thrown into prison as a spy on the orders of his own uncle. After a five-year imprisonment, he died on August 16, 1327. After his death, he was identified by the sign of a cross on his chest.

Reverence

Widespread popular veneration of the saint began immediately after his death, although he was not officially canonized until the 17th century. The final veneration of St. Roja was established by Pope Urban VIII in 1629. They prayed to Saint Roch mainly for deliverance from the plague. The cult, initially limited to Montpellier and northern Italy, quickly spread to Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

In the life of the saint, Vita Sancti Rochi, written in 1478 by the governor of Brescia, Francesco Diedo, there is an episode according to which

Roch

Birth:	1295 (1295 )
Death:	1327 (1327 )
Honored:	Catholic Church
Canonized:
Day of Remembrance:
Patron:	patients with serious illnesses, pilgrims, surgeons, livestock, Montpellier
Attributes:	leg ulcer, dog with bread in mouth, pilgrim's staff
Asceticism:	miraculous healings

Saint Roch, Roch from Montpellier(lat. Rochus, fr. Roch, Italian Rocco); around 1295 in Montpellier - 1327 in the same place - a Catholic saint who gained fame as a defender against the plague.

Biography

Historical information about the life of Saint Roch is contained exclusively in legends, including those set out in the Golden Legend. Some modern historians consider the figure of Saint Roch to be ahistorical, and his life to be based on the lives of earlier saints.

According to legend, Saint Roch was born in Montpellier around 1295 in the family of the city's governor. Even at birth, he was marked with a special sign on his chest in the shape of a red cross. When the young man was about 20 years old, he lost his parents, after which he distributed all his property to the poor and went to Rome on a pilgrimage. Arriving in Italy, Roch discovered that a plague epidemic was raging in the country, after which he began to travel around the country, caring for those suffering from the plague and healing them with prayer and the sign of the cross. Tradition tells of miracles of healing performed by him in Acquapendente, Cesena, Rimini, Novara, Rome, Mantua, Modena and Parma. In Piacenza, Roch himself contracted the plague, was expelled from the city, and went to die in an abandoned forest hut. According to legend, the dog of a nobleman named Gotthard brought St. Bread was given to Roch, who was dying of hunger. Soon the saint was healed of the plague, and Gotthard became his assistant.

Reverence

In the life of the saint, Vita Sancti Rochi, written in 1478 by the governor of Brescia, Francesco Diedo, there is an episode according to which in 1416, during the Council of Constance, the city was threatened by a plague epidemic. After prayers to Saint Roch and prayer processions, the disease retreated from the city. In 1485, the Venetians secretly removed the relics of St. Roja from Montpellier to Venice. Venice, as the main trading city through which trade with the East took place, suffered greatly from deadly epidemics, and therefore Saint Roch was proclaimed one of the patron saints of the city. In 1508, the Church of San Rocco was built in Venice.

Saint Roch is revered as the patron saint of those suffering from plague and cholera, suffering from diseases of the legs and skin; pilgrims, surgeons; as well as dogs and livestock. Saint Roch is the patron saint of French Montpellier (the city's cathedral, street, square and railway station are named after him) and several Italian cities.

The Catholic Church commemorates the saint on August 16. In many cities around the world, including Montpellier, colorful processions dedicated to the saint are held on this day.

Religious reading: prayer to Saint Roch to help our readers.

Holy Supreme Apostle Peter, the stone of faith, on Christ, the cornerstone, established in the Church by confession! Pray, and I, always shaken by intelligent thoughts and carnal lusts, on that same Christ, the Living Stone, the Chosen, Honest, by faith, I am always appointed by love into a spiritual temple, into a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices to God to Jesus Christ. Holy Supreme Apostle Paul, chosen vessel of Christ, full of the grace and glory of God! Pray to the Creator, who has power over creation, that I, now a destroyed vessel, will create for Himself a vessel in honor, sanctified and useful, prepared for every good thing. Amen.

The first apostles and universal teachers, pray to the Lord of all to grant peace to the universe and great mercy to our souls.

We magnify you, Apostles of Christ, who enlightened the whole world with your teachings and brought everything to Christ.

Venerable Maron of Syria

(This saint was known during his lifetime as a healer of fevers and fevers.)

O beloved and sacred head, venerable and God-bearing Father Marone! Look down mercifully on us sinners, and pray to the All-Bounteous Master and the Giver of all good things, God, to preserve our power and preserve it from all enemies intact and undamaged. Be a prayer book for us unworthy as well. Stretch out your hands to the All-merciful Lord of honor, and ask for mercy and generosity from Him, with them save us from all troubles and severe diseases, and free us from all passions, and also from the unbearable and inexhaustible fire and shaking, through your prayers, deliver us and from the attacks of demons; protect us from visible and invisible enemies, and ask for forgiveness of our sins, and present us saved to Christ, so that on the day of the Last Judgment, we will appear with joy before the face of His ineffable glory, and we will graciously hear the call to the Kingdom of Heaven from Him, and in indescribable joy behold the glorious kindness of His face, by the grace and love of mankind of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ: for His Power is blessed and glorified with His Beginning Father and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

As if the unsetting sun has risen for us today through your radiant prayers, Reverend Our Father Marone, who reached a certain mountain, and there became wicked people living on it, for your superior virtue to God; and there you found an idol’s treasury, having sanctified it to God, you abode in it: and having seen the Lover of Mankind, your feat and labors, God gave you His gift, by which your name was brought among men, to heal sorrows, fires and shakes for those who come running to you with faith. In the same way we call: Rejoice, our speedy healer, Rejoice, our warm intercessor: stand before the Most Holy Trinity, praying for those who call upon your holy name, that we may be delivered from these grave sorrows and save our souls.

Venerable Basil the New

(St. Basil, during his lifetime, was a famous healer of fever. If a sick person sat next to St. Basil, he immediately began to shake violently and recovered.)

O sacred head, reverend father, blessed Abvo Vasily, do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in holy and auspicious prayers to God: remember your flock, which you yourself shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children, pray for us, father sacred, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love: remember us unworthy at the Throne of the Almighty, and do not stop praying for us to Christ God, for You have been given the grace to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you have passed away from us in body, but remain alive even after death, do not depart from us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the machinations of the devil, to our good shepherd even more than the relics your cancer is always visible before our eyes, but your holy soul with the angelic hosts, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, standing at the Throne of the Almighty, worthily rejoices, knowing that you are truly alive and alive after death, we fall down to you and we pray to you: pray about us to the Almighty God, about the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, and from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, may we be delivered from eternal torment, and may we be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, from all eternity have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Father without beginning, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

In you, father, it is known that you were saved in the image, for you accepted the cross, you followed Christ, and you taught in action to despise the flesh, for it comes: to be diligent about the souls, things more immortal: in the same way your spirit rejoices with the Angels, Reverend Basil .

Having divinely armed yourself with spiritual purity, and having firmly handed over unceasing prayers like a copy, you prosecuted the demonic host of Vasily, pray unceasingly for all of us.

We bless you, Reverend Father Basil, and honor your holy memory, teacher of monks and interlocutor of Angels.

(The Holy Martyr Sisinius, bishop of the city of Cyzicus, suffered under Diocletian, for which God gave him the grace to heal fever.)

Thy martyr, Lord Sisinie, in his suffering received an imperishable crown from You, our God, for having Thy strength, overthrow the tormentors, crush the demons of weak insolence, save our souls with your prayers.

You have appeared as a bright star, the charmless one of the world, proclaiming the Sun of Christ with your dawns, passion-bearing Sisiniye, and you have extinguished all the charm, giving us light, praying unceasingly for all of us.

We magnify you, passion-bearing saint Sisinius, and honor your honest suffering, who you endured for Christ.

Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete

(For his virtuous life and mercy towards the poor, Myron became a bishop, glorified by God for many miracles, including the gift of help in fever.)

O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Savior with the Father, the great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Myron, standing at the Throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the consubstantial Trinity and cherubically with the angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness To the all-merciful Master, pray for the salvation of Christ's flock of people, establish the well-being of the holy churches: decorate the bishops with the splendor of holiness, strengthen the monastics with the feat of the good trend, preserve the reigning city and all cities and countries well, and keep the holy immaculate faith, pray for the whole world through your intercession, deliver us from famine and destruction, and save us from the attacks of foreigners, console the old, guide the young, make the foolish wise, have mercy on widows, protect the orphans, grow up the babies, return the captives, free the weak and those who pray to you from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession: pray for us The All-generous and Humane-loving Christ our God, and on the day of His Terrible Coming He will deliver us from this standing state, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever. Amen.

The rule of faith and the image of meekness and abstinence as a teacher show you to your flock as things are true; For this reason, you have gained high humility, rich in poverty, Father Hierarch Myron, pray to Christ God to save our souls.

Divine thunder, spiritual trumpet, faith-planter and cutter of heresies, saint of the Trinity, great Saint Myron, with the angels standing ever before, pray unceasingly for all of us.

We magnify you, Holy Hierarch Father Myron, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.

To the Righteous Youth Artemy Verkolsky

Holy servant of God, Artemy the Righteous, guardian of the holy monastery, adorned with your name, and close protector of the entire northern region of the Russian country! Look mercifully at the fervent prayer of us sinners and, through your compassionate intercession, ask the Lord for forgiveness of our sins, advancement in faith and piety, and protection from the wiles of the devil. Pray to the Lord, may our pious people remain in health and permanent well-being, may He give peace, silence and unfeigned obedience to our power, may He make us all worthy to receive, after the death of Christians, the Heavenly Kingdom, where all the righteous are united with you, ever glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O great servant of God, holy righteous Artemy, patron of the holy monastery, admiring your name, strong intercessor for us to the Lord, great benefactor of the monks of your monastery living here and all of your miraculous relics flowing to the race with faith and love! Look mercifully at the wretched prayer of us, sinful and obscene slaves, and with your omnipotent intercession ask the Lord for forgiveness of sins, advancement in faith and piety, and protection from the machinations of the adversary who seeks to destroy us. Grant to the brotherhood of your monastery, from the eldest to the last, humility and meekness, all-hearted love and obedience, reverent, holy service and living, and in everything faithful and complacent fulfillment of monastic community, yes, working for the Lord unashamedly and burning in spirit in unceasing prayer for our living benefactors and the departed, let us appear as faithful servants of the Lord, so that the Orthodox Church of All Russia, like a well-planted garden, blooms and bears fruit richly with the fruits of faith and piety! Pray to the Lord to keep our Orthodox people in health, spiritual salvation and prosperity in everything. Pray to the Lord for mercy and gracious bounties to our Holiness Patriarch (name) and our Holy Synod. Pray to the Lord, that through the intercession and intercession of our most blessed Lady Theotokos, we may all live a peaceful and God-pleasing life here and, after a more peaceful death than Christians, we will be honored in the glorious kingdom with the mercy of the King of Heaven and earth. Father and Son and Holy Spirit, glorifying Him now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

O glorious servant of God, O great wonderworker, holy and righteous Artemy, earthly cherub, heavenly man, interlocutor of angels, heavenly inhabitant! Look down from the heights of heaven with your bright eye, and send down upon us the rays of God's grace. Lamp of God, kindle the darkness of our sins with your holy prayers, ask the Father of lights for the light of grace for our souls, a quick helper and intercessor for all the faithful. Everyone, with faith, come prayerfully under the roof of your protection and ask the Lord for your intercession, if we can help you, he gains God’s mercy and is not deprived of the desires of his heart, but asks for grace and accepts the gift for the benefit of the petition. You are, righteous Artemy, a city planted by God, in which there is a healthy flower, prosperity, and many will be healed from the green and shaking ailment. Oh, how many, with your miraculous help, blindness has been restored to sight, deafness has been restored to hearing, lameness has jumped up and walked, the infirmity has been accepted by the action of hands, madness has been awakened, weakening in the veins has been strengthened, congestion has been corrected, and those with injuries have been healed! You also drove away the filthiness of the demons with your prayer, and resolved other unhealed illnesses. Thus, holy and righteous Artemy, you are always merciful to everyone. For we also pray for God’s inscrutable goodness, may the Lord forgive us our debts, and may He preserve the Russian state in peace and prosperity, in strength and abundance, and may He strengthen the Orthodox faith, may He satisfy church schisms, and may He save all Orthodox Christians. We will honestly celebrate your holy memory from generation to generation, glorifying Christ the Lord, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever, and to the endless ages of ages. . Amen.

A desert dweller and an angel and wonderworker appeared in your body, Father Artemy: by fasting, vigil, and prayer you received heavenly gifts, healing the sick and the souls of those who flow to you by faith. Glory to Him who gave you strength, glory to Him who crowned you, glory to Him who heals you all.

Saint Tarasius, Bishop of Constantinople

(The saint was the father of the poor and orphans, the comforter of the sorrowing, the defender of the offended, he stood firmly for the truth, and possessed the gift of healing.)

The rule of faith and the image of meekness, self-control of the teacher, show you to your flock, even the truth of things, for this sake you have acquired high humility, rich in poverty, Father Tarasius, pray to Christ God to save our souls.

Having understood the Orthodox dogmas of the Church, and having taught everyone to venerate and venerate the blessed icon of Christ, Thou hast given the godless command to the iconoclasts. For this reason we cry out to you: O Father, rejoice, wise Tarasius.

Prayer to Saint Roch

patients with serious illnesses, pilgrims, surgeons, livestock, Montpellier

leg ulcer, dog with bread in mouth, pilgrim's staff

According to legend, Saint Roch was born in Montpellier around 1295 in the family of the city's governor. Even at birth, he was marked with a special sign on his chest in the shape of a red cross. When the young man was about 20 years old, he lost his parents, after which he distributed all his property to the poor and went to Rome on a pilgrimage. Arriving in Italy, Roch discovered that a plague epidemic was raging in the country, after which he began to travel around the country, caring for those suffering from the plague and healing them with prayer and the sign of the cross. Tradition tells of miracles of healing performed by him in Acquapendente, Cesena, Rimini, Novara, Rome, Mantua, Modena and Parma. In Piacenza, Roch himself contracted the plague, was expelled from the city, and went to die in an abandoned forest hut. According to legend, the dog of a nobleman named Gotthard brought St. Bread was given to Roch, who was dying of hunger. Soon the saint was healed of the plague, and Gotthard became his assistant.

The Catholic Church commemorates the saint on August 16. In many cities around the world, including Montpellier, colorful processions dedicated to the saint are held on this day.

Iconography

In the classical image, Saint Roch is usually pointing to a plague sore on his left leg. The saint is also often depicted with a dog holding bread in its mouth. Another characteristic iconographic attribute is the pilgrim’s staff.

Prayer to Saint Roch

August 16 – feast day of Saint Roch of Montpellier

Some modern historians are inclined to argue that the saint, whose memory is celebrated by the Church on August 16, did not exist at all and that his biography is a later interpretation of the biography of another saint, Raco, who died around 660, whose name is consonant with the name of St. Roja, but the actions are similar. This probably happened due to the fact that information about Saint Roch is scattered and does not allow a complete picture of his life to be drawn.

Some biographers claim that he voluntarily went into the forest so as not to serve as a source of infection, others believe that the inhabitants of Piacenza, having forgotten all the good he had done, demanded that he leave, but one way or another, Roch left the city and went into the forest to die.

When Gothard began to look after Roch, the dog stopped bringing bread, and Gothard, on the advice of the saint, went to Piacenza to beg for his ward, but those who knew him well considered that by begging, he was insulting his family and acquaintances and kicked him out his. And the plague returned to Piacenza. The frightened residents of the city no longer hoped for the help of the saint, whom they first drove out and then denied a piece of bread. But Saint Roch came to the city that had offended him and, although he was very weak after suffering from an illness, walked around it with prayer. The plague has receded.

Later, Gotthard, having distributed all his property and left everything he had, set up a small monastery in the forest, where over time several more people joined him. He wrote the first biography of the saint and his authorship belongs to the only lifetime image of Saint Roch, now kept in the Church of Saint Anna in Piacenza.

Meanwhile, Roch moved on, perhaps wanting to return home. His path lay through the lands belonging to Milan, where there was a war between the Duke of Milan Bernard Visconti and his younger brother Gimazzo. The unknown wanderer, who also refused to identify himself and said only that he was a “humble servant of Christ,” seemed suspicious, was accused of espionage and imprisoned in his native Montpellier, which was ruled by his late father’s brother Germain. The saint could have easily been justified, but he chose to remain in prison, accepting it as the will of God. He used the time spent in prison for prayer, contemplation, repentance and silence. Only when he felt death approaching did he ask to call a priest. The Golden Legend says that “a wonderful light filled the prison where the saint was dying, and this light passed through the walls of the prison... an angel descended from heaven into the prison and brought and placed a tablet with golden letters under the prisoner’s head. And on this tablet it was inscribed that by the grace of God, anyone who humbly prays to Saint Roch will survive the pestilence.”

The relics of Saint Roch, with the exception of small fragments remaining in Montpellier, were taken to Venice in 1485, where they still rest in the Church of San Rocco. Saint Roch was canonized by Pope Urban VIII in 1629. He is considered the patron saint of those suffering from contagious diseases, the disabled and prisoners.

Messages from the curia

Liturgical calendar

December 18, 2017

Jer 23, 5-8; Ps 72 (71), 1-2. 12-13. 18-19 (Ex.: 7); Matthew 1, 18-24

>The saint to whom people pray for help in losing weight.

Gabriel Zyryanov is a saint to whom it is customary to pray for help in losing weight. In Orthodoxy, you can pray to any saint, addressing any problem in prayer and asking for his intercession for us sinners before God. But among people there is a belief that in case of a certain illness or any problem, you need to pray to the saint who himself had this illness during his lifetime or helped solve certain problems during his lifetime.

And he advised the following in his will:

When someone is in any kind of misfortune, the elder recommends reading the prayer canon to the Mother of God “We contain many misfortunes...” And all misfortunes will pass for him

If anyone needs peace of mind, soul sanctification, then the elder recommends reading the 17th kathisma from the Psalter and his inner eyes will be opened

There is an akathist and a prayer to the saint.

The akathist is usually read once a week (but it can be read at any time and even every day if the soul so requests), and the prayer to the saint can be read daily after the usual morning and evening prayers, as well as during the day.

We just need to understand that it is not the saint who helps us. But God helps, and the saint only prays for us before God and his prayer is stronger than our sinful prayer.

Therefore, it is important to offer your prayers not only to the saint, but also to the Lord Himself, the Mother of God, the Guardian Angel and the saint whose name you bear

And of course, make efforts yourself to lose weight or get rid of food addiction by seeking the help of specialists in this matter.

Part 44 – The saint to whom people pray for help in losing weight.

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In Minsk there is a remarkable church - St. Roch. Saint Roch in Catholicism is considered the protector of people and animals from infectious diseases. By building the church, the townspeople tried to escape the cholera epidemic. They chipped in for its construction on the advice of a Polish doctor. Residents were saved from a terrible disease. The church has been reconstructed more than once. Today it serves as a temple and, at the same time, a concert hall. Services in the church are held only in Belarusian. In others - in Belarusian and Polish.

Belarus was strongly influenced by the Catholic and Orthodox churches. During the reign of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, many churches were established here. During the Soviet era, many of them were abandoned. And only in the 90s of the last century the churches began to come back to life.

Address: Minsk, Nezavisimosti Ave., 44A.