Roche, St., the Patron saint of the plague-stricken; being plague-smitten himself, and overtaken with it in a desert place, he was discovered by a dog, who brought him a supply of bread daily from his master's table till he recovered.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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