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Who Is Saint Rocco? Saint Rocco was born of noble parentage about 1340 A.D. in Montpellier, France. At birth it was noted that he had a red cross-shaped birthmark on the left side of his chest. As a young child, San Rocco showed great devotion to God and the Blessed mother. At an early age, his parents died leaving him an orphan under the care of his uncle, the Duke of Montpellier. Soon after, San Rocco distributed his wealth among the poor and took a vow of poverty. San Rocco dressed in the clothes of a pilgrim and departed...

A 13-year-old boy stabbed a man multiple times early Wednesday morning (June 10) after the man fought with the boy's mother in the city's St. Roch neighborhood, New Orleans police say. The stabbing comes roughly 12 hours after police say a 10-year-old boy cut a woman as she argued with the boy's father.In the stabbing Wednesday morning, police say, the 13-year-old's mother and a 42-year-old man were in the 1700 block of Marigny Street when they became embroiled in a "physical altercation" around 3 a.m.

The 17-year-old New Orleans teen Jefferson Parish authorities have accused of killing David Pence and his son, Nicholas, in Metairie last week faces charges out of Orleans Parish ranging from carjacking to the attempted second-degree murder of a U.S. Marshal's deputy, court records show. New Orleans police say the same day Dexter Allen murdered the Pences, he carjacked a Metairie woman at gunpoint as she picked up her son in St. Roch. Two days later, he led U.S. Marshals on a chase along Interstate 10 that ended with him trying to run down a deputy and then jumped into the...