A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 284
tes. He sold all, and gavethe money to hospitals and to thepoor. He then went on foot toRome in the garb of a pilgrim.When he arrived at Aquapen-dente a terrible plague was ragingthere. St. Roch offered to attendthe sick in the hospitals. He wasespecially successful in his care ofthe… … (Carotto.) St. Roch. without the thought that a special blessing was on his efibrts. Hethen went to Cesena and Rimini, where he labored in the same man-ner, and then he arrived at Rome in the midst of a fearful pestilence,and for three years more devoted himself to the care of the most 266 LEGENDS…
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