Saint Roch and Social Distancing During Pandemics: Lessons to be Remembered

Surprisingly, Catholic hagiography can teach us a lot about medicine. As an example, we present here the history of Saint Roch who is considered, along with Saint Sebastian, one of the two main Saints who act as protectors against plagues and have often been invoked by Catholic people during the rec...

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Authors: Perciaccante, Antonio (Author) ; Charlier, Philippe 1977- (Author) ; Coralli, Alessia (Author) ; Deo, Saudamini (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. 2021
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 2324-2330
Further subjects:B Epidemics
B Catholic hagiography
B Social Distancing
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