Saint Roch

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Saint Roch, Brabant (?), Belgium, around 1520, walnut, original polychrome. Gift from Vermeersch (1911). Muséé du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap from AutoDesk. St. Roch offered all his goods to the poor to lead a life of pilgrim and beggar. While traveling in Italy, he cured many plague victims until he became infected with the disease. Since the end of the Middle Ages, Saint Roch is the protector par excellence against epidemics of plague. The saint wears the habit and the attributes of a pilgrim and raises his garment to show the plague bubo of his leg. For more updates, please consider to follow me on Twitter at @GeoffreyMarchal.