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Our Honorary Patron Saint
St Roche was born at a time when inequality was rife and disease was a daily fact of life, in fact he lived and worked throughout the worse of the bubonic plague or the black death and inevitably St Roche contracted the deadly disease.
His other love, other than looking after the most vulnerable of humanity was his love of dogs and he was often found giving them scraps when he had very little himself, this at a time when dogs were viewed as filthy animals.
When lying on his death bed one of St Roche's dogs whom he looked after stayed with him throughout and started licking the diseased sores and wouldn't you know it, St Roche went onto survive all down to the love of a dog.
There are plenty of people who owe their survival to our canine pals within Pawpalz and the wider community and we can think of no other Saint we would invite to be the honorary Patron of our charity and we hope you can all welcome St Roche into our pack.
