{"id":28189,"date":"2013-08-16T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28189"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:03:05","slug":"saint-roch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/saint-roch\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Roch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/St-Roch-and-BVM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28190 alignleft\" title=\"St Roch and BVM\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/St-Roch-and-BVM-222x300.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/St-Roch-and-BVM-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/St-Roch-and-BVM.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Saint Roch (+1327) is a patron of the sick. He knew first hand the sufferings sick people face, and how the illness, though a cross, makes a bridge to something greater.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Roch was a layman who followed the good example of Saint Francis of Assisi, and it is said that he was a member of the Secular Franciscans though there are no records attesting to this and yet the Franciscans observe his liturgical memorial on August 17.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic healthcare was emboldened in the time following Roch&#8217;s death with various hospice works and groups gathering as a confraternity to assist the professionals and families.\u00a0Many were healed of their diseases through Saint Roch&#8217;s intercession.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings on my friend, Father Matthew Rocco Mauriello and his parish, Saint Roch, Greenwich, CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Roch (+1327) is a patron of the sick. He knew first hand the sufferings sick people face, and how the illness, though a cross, makes a bridge to something greater. Saint Roch was a layman who followed the good example of Saint Francis of Assisi, and it is said that he was a member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/saint-roch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Roch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2231,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28191,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28189\/revisions\/28191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}