Word: roched
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...Montpellier, France toward the close of the 13th Century was born one Roch, son of the town's wealthy governor. Orphaned, Roch gave away his fortune, set out for Rome as a mendicant pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe...
...indoors, while carts rumbled off with the dead, and hydrants gushed to rid the town of its foulness. Among the devout who tolled their church bells and prayed for deliverance were the Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin, vowing that if they were spared they would devote a day to the two every year forever.* Not a single parishioner of St. Michael's was stricken then or in the second plague which swept Pittsburgh...
...hundreds of Catholics, some of them sons and grandsons of those delivered from the plague, some of them old parishioners who traveled hundreds of miles for the event. All were permitted to kiss the church's prized reliquary containing a bit of one of St. Roch's bones...
...rumor burgeoned from the jungle. A U. S. engineer named Charles Hasler reported at Para, Brazil that he had heard of a captive white man believed to be Redfern. By mid-1933 the air was thick with rumors from a dozen sources. A German-U. S. engineer named Tom Roch appeared out of the wilderness to announce he had talked to Redfern. Regardless of source, the stories were all remarkably alike in detail...
...semi-official story caused a rash of proposed rescue expeditions, the latest being announced last week by Explorer LaVarre. Four have actually got under way. One, financed by the American Legion, set out from the Canal Zone with lavish equipment, is now deep in the jungle in canoes. Tom Roch popped up again, went off in search by foot with another U. S. adventurer. A Dutch expedition started along another route to the unknown interior. Most publicized expedition of all was that started by Pilot Art Williams, who taught Redfern...