Saint Roch Chapel

In terms of popular worship, he is primarily the patron saint of all pilgrims as well as of many brotherhoods and guilds: notably surgeons, dermatologists, and apothecaries (pharmacists).
Saint Roch (born in Montpellier around 1350 and died 1378), Rochus in Latin and Sant Ròc in Occitan, was a French pilgrim and wonderworker, honored on August 16, to whom the Church granted the canonical title of confessor (for having suffered greatly in the service of the faith but without suffering...