Saint / folklore

San Rocco

Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague.

In the book

Advising the exhausted Captain Frazer, Lewis recommends a medal of San Rocco — ‘patron of coitus reservatus’ — to be had in any religious-supplies shop.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

October 28 1943
Asked to interpret between an Italian woman and her English-speaking-impaired British officer lover, Lewis observes how bread and supplies shape wartime romance.
invoked as patron of coitus reservatus
- Poverty & hunger
- Sex & relationships

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