The Saint of the day August 16 is San Rocco, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.

San Rocco

Rocco, born of a noble family in the late 1200s, donated all his belongings to the poor and set off as a pilgrim to Rome.

At Acquapendente he stopped to help the numerous patients who had contracted a plague that was decimating Europe.

Pilgrimage throughout the Italian territory, he carried out his thaumaturgic activity until he too got sick of the plague.

Retiring to solitude, every day he received a visit from a dog who, sent by the noble Gotthard, brought him food and licked his wound to heal it.

He was captured on the border with France as a spy and thrown into prison where he later died.

Legend has it that his remains were brought to Venice, the city of which he became patron with San Marco.

Other saints and celebrations on August 16

• Saint Stephen of Hungary

King

• Blessed Angelo Mazzinghi
• Sant ’Armagilo

Abbot in Brittany



• Sant ’Arsacio di Nicomedia
• Blessed Henry of Almazora (Enrique Garcia Beltran)

Deacon and martyr

• San Frambaldo
• Blessed Gabriele Maria from Benyfayo (Giuseppe Maria Sanchis Mompò)

Religious and martyr

Recommended readings
• August 6: saint of the day, name day
• August 5: saint of the day, name day
• August 31: saint of the day, name day
• August 19: saint of the day, name day
• August 26: saint of the day, name day
• Blessed Giovanni Battista Menestrel

Martyr

• Blessed Giovanni di S. Marta

Martyr

• Blessed Lorenzo Loricato of Subiaco

Hermit

• Blessed Stone of St. Joseph Pérez Florido (Ana Josefa)

Founder

• Blessed Placido Garcia Gilabert

Priest and martyr

• Blessed Radulfo (Rodolfo) of La Fustaie
• Santa Rosa Fan Hui

Martyr

• Santa Serena of Rome

Empress



• Blessed Simone and Maddalena Bokusai Kyota, Tommaso and Maria Gengoro, and Giacomo Gengoro

Martyrs

• San Teodoro di Octoduro

Bishop

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