The Appearance of the Angel to St. Roch

The canvas depicting the Appearance of the Angel to St Roque was painted by Gaspar Dias for the retable of a chapel built at the site of the head of the St Roque primitive hermitage, now in the Professed House of the Company of Jesus in Lisbon, run by the Confraternity placed under the protection of this saint in the mid-1580s. According to the hagiography, St Roque was portrayed as a pilgrim in t…