#St. Roche

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'darcy' shirt by st. roche.

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Saint-Michel-sur-Orge.

La résidence du Bois des Roches.

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Faubourg St. Roch

New Orleans

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Saint Roch

1295-1327

Feast day: August 16

Patronage: dogs, invalids, skin rashes, invoked against the plague and pestilence

Saint Roch was a French noble, orphaned at 20. Legend claims that he had a red cross birthmark on his chest. He gave all his possessions away and made a pilgrimage to Rome, where he cared for plague victims. When he contracted the disease himself, he retired to a woods to die. It is said that a dog befriended him, brought him bread and licked his wounds. A spring arose where he laid. He recovered and traveled back to France where he was imprisoned as a spy and died. It was then that he was identified as Roch because of the red cross on his chest. An arch confraternity of St. Roch still is active today.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[postcard-from-the-past]

St. Roch chapel in Thiers, Auvergne region of France

French vintage postcard

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Telma Masurel by Dorian de St. Roch

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Boat posting on main and thinking about the St. Roch voyage, only the second ship to make the Northwest Passage, and the first to do it West to East. It took 28 month to reach Halifax, NS from Vancouver, the voyage spanning from 1940-1942. It's such a recent voyage that there is video footage from it, isn't that wild?

"The pack-ice ’round us cracks and groans The old St. Roch, she creaks and moans The icy fog is in my bones And the ache won’t go away Outside I bet it’s warm and fair I could have her fingers in my hair But it’s long, cold miles to her out there So I guess I���ll have to stay And just take it from day to day"

Stan Rogers, Take It From Day to Day

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Quote/s of the Day – 27 June – – Mother of Perpetual Succour

Quote/s of the Day – 27 June – – Mother of Perpetual Succour “Let not your heart be disturbed.Do not fear that sickness,nor any other sickness or anguish.Am I not here, who is your Mother?Are you not under my protection?Am I not your health?Are you not happily within my fold?What else do you wish?Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything!” Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego9 December…

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Dogs

In honor of national dog day, which was on the 26th of August let’s discuss the importance of dogs in the physical and spiritual world. Even though the calendar date has passed, the crucial role dogs play in guiding our transitions from life to death is a recurring theme seen across humanity.

Dogs spiritually signify intuition, loyalty, healing and unconditional love. This is its text book spiritual definition but once you dive deeper, you also find that they have been associated with death, disease, and the underworld. This doesn’t make dogs a bad omen, on the contrary they’re like a talisman that protects you. They are protectors and since they are familiar with things of the underworld, death and disease they are able to sniff that out. How do you expect someone to protect you from harm they are unaware of? In many cultures they are believed to ward off evil spirits and disease. So many cultures mirror each other in their mythology, all these dog gods and saints shared the same themes.

A primary example was found in ancient Mexico, with the Aztecs. Xolotl the god of death, fire, darkness and disease was a main reason why humans exist according to the Aztecs. When the Aztec gods were first trying to perfect humans, they realized they were missing a material. That material was only found in the underworld with Mictlantecuhtli, none of the gods wanted to take up this challenge except Xolotl. The courages Xolotl then transformed into his favorite animal, a dog and began his journey towards el Mictlan(the underworld). Mictlantecuhtli the god of the underworld peacefully gave Xolotl the material he needed, a bone. Mictlantecuhtli was a skull and bones himself. After Xolotls success traveling through el Mictlan a tradition started, since Xolotl was able to safely travel in and out of el Mictlan as his canine avatar the Aztecs started to believe that dogs had the ability to guide souls through el Mictlan into Tlalocán(Paradise)

In this tradition when someone would pass, their dog would have to be sacrificed. Because then who else will guide you from the underworld into paradise? Everyone ends up at el Mictlan no matter how good you are, maybe that is because we were all created from Mictlantecuhtlis bone. We are all inherently evil as humans, it’s only fair to return to where we came from. The underworld. We just have to find our way into paradise, that is where our pure furry friends come in to help.

It’s so interesting to see these similarities across the globe, especially considering this was so long ago and these cultures probably never knew of each others existence. You go to the other side of the world and find the same symbolism repeated. Bhairava is the Hindu god of the underworld, Shivas most feared form. Bhairava was depicted either mounted on a fierce black dog or using him as a weapon. His feared canine would fight off demons literally and metaphorically since your inner demons are the ones that prevent you from finding God. In Hindu mythology, dogs association with protection is very emphasized. They are the protectors of both gates of heaven and hell. People often leave food and water out for stray dogs out of tradition, they know it’s dogs that lead souls into paradise.

Now let’s travel 5000 km to the East, to Egypt. Where we find the black dog headed god Anubis roaming the tombs of Egypt, where he works. Anubis the Egyptian god of death, burials, embalming and anything that has to do with rituals of the afterlife. He was black in color as a symbol of decay and the Nile river and its fertility, where there is death there is life. Anubis is also in charge of leading souls through the underworld where they get judged by Osiris.

When we get to Christianity, you see dogs association with healing highlighted. A good example of this is St Roch, St Roch a saint of France who rejected and walked out on a life of luxury’s coming from a wealthy family and dedicated his life to healing people spiritually and therefore physically. St Roch left all his riches behind and embarked on a journey with only his faith and canine friends. That is when he stumbled upon a town in Europe where most of its people were suffering from the black plague, St Roch and his dogs healed people with their faith and energy. When St Roch was inevitably infected with the black plague, he accepted his fate and went into the woods to die. That is where a pup found him and licked on his wounds healing them and making them better, thanks to that pup and his owner St Roch was cured. In this story dogs association with death is a little more abstract but St Roch and his dogs all had to dip a foot into death and its energies being surrounded around the black plague. St Roch teaches us that sometimes all you need is your faith, and your loyal pup by your side.

Next time you see your four legged companion, make sure to reward them, with a hug and treat for all the hard work they are doing behind the veil. And if your pup has passed just know they are patiently waiting to see you again next to Mictlantecuhtli.

Tecpatl²

[zaritarazi]

kendra was supposed to be cured before she could turn into a vampire — so why is ser thomas haunting her dreams, lingering out of the corner of her eye? how is she supposed to help stop st. roch when she's so endlessly hungry? and what is she going to do when carter finds out, if she can only think about draining him dry? hawkman (2002) post #26 au: kendra's a baby vampire. carter has no idea, and ironically, he's trying to push her away for her own good. domina doesn't understand what she's seeing. combined with an alleged avenging angel on the loose only one thing is certain: the city of st. roch is about to lose a lot of blood.

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Bon jour ☕️🥐🍓et bon Week-end à tous

La mariée, église Saint Roch🗼Paris 1952

Photo de Édouard Boubat

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Tag yourself, St Rocco edition

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Faubourg St. Roch

New Orleans

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Roch

1295-1327

Feast day: August 16

Patronage: dogs, invalids, skin rashes, invoked against the plague and pestilence

Saint Roch was a French noble, orphaned at 20. Legend claims that he had a red cross birthmark on his chest. He gave all his possessions away and made a pilgrimage to Rome, where he cared for plague victims. When he contracted the disease himself, he retired to a woods to die. It is said that a dog befriended him, brought him bread and licked his wounds. A spring arose where he laid. He recovered and traveled back to France where he was imprisoned as a spy and died. It was then that he was identified as Roch because of the red cross on his chest. An archconfraternity of St. Roch still is active today.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Bridge and St. Roch chapel in Thiers, Auvergne region of France

French vintage postcard