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This statue is just after O Cebreiro. I just realized that the picture I took is the same statue as on the cover of a book from 2004 that my mother in law gave me. The staff is now broken off at the hand and the brickwork around the base seems different. Does anybody know the back story on this pilgrim? I'd love to hear it!IMG_4450.JPGIMG_1254.JPG
 
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St Roch, aka San Roque, was bishop in Le Puy back in the day, and is one of the earliest recorded pilgrims to Santiago. Statues and paintings of him are everywhere, usually with him hoisting his robe showing the sore on his knee, and with a little dog beside him.

No, his knee wasn't sore from walking. It has something to do with him curing some faithful of leprosy. Details have faded in my memory, but a search should answer further lingering questions.
 
It’s on the Alto de San Roque. All I know is that it depicts a medieval pilgrim, walking against the wind. The artist is from Galicia, José María Acuña and it is made in bronze....
I can attest to the walking against the wind part. It was very foggy, wet and windy that day. Otherwise I would have spent more time with the statue. There’s always next time ...
 
St Roch, aka San Roque, was bishop in Le Puy back in the day, and is one of the earliest recorded pilgrims to Santiago. Statues and paintings of him are everywhere, usually with him hoisting his robe showing the sore on his knee, and with a little dog beside him.

No, his knee wasn't sore from walking. It has something to do with him curing some faithful of leprosy. Details have faded in my memory, but a search should answer further lingering questions.
Lucky we can all go back and see everything for the first time again. I wish I had known who he was the first time around :)
 
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Perfect place for this monument. We also experienced rain and fog after a long night's storm. This is our start in the early morning, 15 Sept 2017.
 

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St Roch, aka San Roque, was bishop in Le Puy back in the day, and is one of the earliest recorded pilgrims to Santiago. Statues and paintings of him are everywhere, usually with him hoisting his robe showing the sore on his knee, and with a little dog beside him.

No, his knee wasn't sore from walking. It has something to do with him curing some faithful of leprosy. Details have faded in my memory, but a search should answer further lingering questions.

I read that San Roque was suffering from plague. Unfortunately he probably contracted it from fleas carried by his faithful dog.
 
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Well, I had to go look. Wikipedia says it was indeed plague (and other diseases lumped in as plague) and it was the dog that cured him and saved his life. The dog belonged to a local nobleman... I wonder if he liberated the dog.... He's also:

Patron Saint of: bachelors, diseased cattle, dogs, falsely accused people, invalids, surgeons, tile-makers, gravediggers, second-hand dealers, pilgrims, apothecaries etc.

I don't see them calling him bishop of Le Puy, but was named to succeed his father as governor of Montpellier, but he ran off to Rome instead. I'm sure I read something while on the Le Puy camino about him being bishop.
 
I wonder when the staff was broken (stolen?) I have it whole in a photo from September 2001 - the only other one I have from 2017 by which time it's been shortened.
 
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