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Baby Name Roch |
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| Meaning of Roch - What does the name Roch means? |
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| rosh |  |
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Boy Name |
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French |
| Name Meaning: |
French cognate of the Italian Rocco, a name derived from the Germanic hrok (rest). The name was borne by a 14th-century French healer who was on pilgrimage to Rome when a plague broke out in northern Italy. St. Roch traveled from place to place nursing the sick and miraculously healing them, until he too fell victim to the plague and ended up being comforted by a dog. Upon his return to France, he was mistaken for an imposter and taken to prison, where he died. St. Roch is considered a patron saint of the sick, |
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