St. Roch

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 * Image                  = St. Roch 01.png
 * OfficialName           = City of St. Roch
 * Aliases                = Saint Roch; The City the Saints Forgot


 * Quotation          = One thing I learned in this armpit of a city—Don' mess with the rats.
 * Speaker            = Warwhip


 * Universe               = New Earth
 * Galaxy                 = Milky Way
 * Sector                 =
 * StarSystem             = Sol
 * Planet                 = Earth
 * Country                = United States of America
 * City                   =
 * State                  = Louisiana
 * Province               =
 * Locale                 = Terrebonne Parish


 * Dimensions             =
 * Population             =
 * First                  = Hawkman Vol 4 #1


 * HistoryText            = According to Angel Killer, the city of St. Roch was originally called La Moyne.  In 1868 rodents carrying Yellow Fever arrived from Europe.  Earlier, in the late 1300's/early 1400's, St. Roch, the person, disguised himself as a Mendicant Pilgrim and encountered a plague in a place called Aquapendente.  There he first used his "power" to cure the plague using the sign of the cross (he had been born with a red cross on his chest).  He proceeded to cure the plague wherever he went.  In 1414 the city of Constance, which also had been affected by plague, ordered public prayers in honor of St. Roch and the plague was cured.  Thus, in La Moyne, when the Yellow Fever plague occurred, the city also performed public prayer to St. Roch and, again, the plague was cured.  The city of La Moyne renamed itself St. Roch in his honor.


 * PointsOfInterest       =
 * 88 Keyes
 * Bach's Bourree
 * Craddock House
 * Down by the Levee Retirement Community
 * Downtown St. Roch
 * Nightshade Apartments


 * Ethon Tower
 * Glen Wilson Research Center
 * Le Lion D'or
 * Le Moyne Paper mill
 * Lure (Nightclub)
 * Stonechat Museum
 * St. Roch Cemetery
 * St. Roch University
 * Willowbrook Sanctuary

Events

 * The St. Roch Jazz Festival


 * Residents              =

Heroes

 * Cinnamon (19th century)
 * Golden Eagle (Charley Parker)
 * Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)
 * Hawkman (Carter Hall)
 * Nighthawk (19th century)

Villains

 * Albert Nedal
 * Angel Killer
 * Bloque
 * Fadeaway Man
 * Gentleman Ghost
 * Headhunter
 * Helene Astar
 * Hummingbird
 * Kristopher Renard Roderic
 * Lasso
 * Lion-Mane
 * Manticore
 * Purple Pilgrim
 * Satana
 * Spider
 * Thought Terror
 * Trygg the Sorcerer
 * Warwhip

Others

 * Andrew Grubs
 * Billy Filmore
 * Bois Garvey (19th century)
 * Cyrus Evans (19th century)
 * Danny Evans
 * Darryl Jenkins
 * Dessau
 * Domina Paris
 * Henri Doucette
 * Isabella
 * James Wright (1917)
 * Jayita Sahir
 * Jeremy Barlow
 * Kubert (Mayor)
 * Louie Moretti (1917)
 * Mark
 * Matilda Dunney (19th century)
 * Michael Saunders
 * Oliver Evans
 * Red McMurty (1917)
 * Sheila Carr (1917)
 * Sir Thomas Gray
 * Susan Morrison
 * Trina Saunders


 * Notes                  =
 * Although St. Roch was first shown in Hawkman Vol 4 1 in May 2002, it was mentioned prior to that in Flash Secret Files and Origins Vol 1 3 (November 2001) as a city without superheroes.
 * Trivia                 =
 * The culture and architecture of St. Roch is styled after that of New Orleans, Louisiana.


 * St. Roch is also the name of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first vessel to complete a Pacific to Atlantic voyage through the Northwest Passage.


 * CustomSection1         = Recommended Reading
 * CustomText1            =
 * Hawkgirl
 * Hawkman (Volume 4)

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