Description
Touchstone Pottery Saint Roch Porcelain Oval Pendant on Braided Cord | Patron of Dogs, Dog Lovers, Invalids
- Handcrafted elegant matte finish porcelain pendant
- Saint Roch is the patron of dogs, dog lovers, and invalids
- Handcrafted in the Touchstone Pottery studio located in a small town in Michigan, proudly made in the USA
- The design is fired permanently and precisely into the ceramic. It will not wear off
- Braided 32" rayon cord is a continuous loop. No clasp to worry about
- Ready to give as a gift in a velvet-lined box with a card describing the saint
- Pendant size: 1.5 x 0.875 inches
Roch was born a French noble, but early on he developed a strong sympathy for the poor. At the age of 20, he gave his fortune to the poor and left on a pilgrimage. He came across a town afflicted by the plague. He stayed to help the sick and miraculously cured several people, but then got the disease himself. He went into a forest to die, but a stray dog fed him food stolen from his master’s table and Roch recovered. Roch was arrested but never mentioned his nobility. He died after five years in prison.