# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-roch
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:06:04.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-roch"
name: "Saint Roch"
slug: "saint-roch"
description: "A medieval confessor invoked across centuries against plague — and still patron to dogs, the falsely accused, and bachelors. His feast day anchors towns from Venice to the Basque Country, and his name shifts with the language: Roque, Rocco, Rok."
tagline: "Christian saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heilige_Rochus_door_Christus_aangesteld_tot_patroon_van_de_pestlijders_-_Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Sint-Martinuskerk_Aalst.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
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profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1293"
deathDate: "1327-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.71
  momentum:             0.3086259852718055
  historical:           23.93618533333333
  currentAttention:     21.67857142857143
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    slug: "religious-figure"
  - name: "Religion"
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152457"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "القديس روش"
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    title: "Сьвяты Рох"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%85"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sant Rok"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Roc"
    title: "Sant Roc"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roke_Montpellierkoa"
    title: "Roke Montpellierkoa"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochus"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch_de_Montpellier"
    title: "Roch de Montpellier"
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  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochus_(hillige)"
    title: "Rochus (hillige)"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_R%C3%B3kus"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochus"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Rocco"
    title: "San Rocco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Roque"
    title: "Sant Roque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4_(%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3)"
    title: "روش (قديس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Roch lived sometime around the mid-to-late 1300s, though tradition pushes his dates earlier to the turn of the 14th century. A Majorcan Catholic confessor, he became especially associated with protection against plague during an era when the disease tore through Europe. His death is commemorated on 16 August in most places, 9 September in parts of Italy. Over time his patronage broadened — dogs, invalids, the falsely accused, bachelors — and his reach spread across regions and languages. Today he remains patron saint of multiple Italian towns including Dolo near Venice, Parma, Casamassima, and others, as well as communities in southern Spain and the Basque Country. His name travels: São Roque in Portuguese, Sant Roc in Catalan, San Roque in Spanish and the old Spanish colonies like the Philippines, San Rocco in Italian, Sveti Rok in Slovenian, Sveti Roko in Croatian. The invocation endures where the plague once did.