29/02/2024
God provided for him by sending him a dog.🥺
St. Roch is the patron saint of dogs because a dog would lick his sores and bring him bread when he was suffering from the plague.
St. Roch isolated himself from others by going into a self-quarantine in the forest. There he was slowly dying, but God provided for him by sending him a dog.
This dog would lick his sores and bring him bread each day that he took from his master’s table. This is why St. Roch is often depicted in paintings with a dog.