Saint Rocco cared for the sick with great affection and gentleness. He also had great skill, no doubt acquired at the famous school of medicine at Montpellier: with his lancet, he removed tumors from those stricken with the plague and cleaned out their oozing sores. He comforted and consoled, tracing the sign of the cross on the foreheads of the suffering .. At his touch, the sick were often healed. They were healed so often that people told each other about it and recognized in Rocco God's goodness come to help them. Our saint had the gift of healing, a particularly useful and beneficial gift at this time when medicine was still powerless in the face of epidemics. But his holiness is measured not so much by the number of cures, as by the strength of his love of neighbor: the pilgrim Rocco first and foremost loved his suffering brothers and sisters, even to the point of heroism"