Note 8 — Chapter IX · NORTH TIROL—THE INNTHAL. INNSBRUCK (continued).
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Patron saints against pestilence: viz. SS. Martha (because according to her legend she built a hospital and ended her life tending the sick), Sebastian (because a plague was stayed in Rome at his intercession), and Rocchus (because of the well-known legend of his self-devotion to the plague-stricken).