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The fraternity of the Friars of Charity. Rocha (Rochici) - the founder of the community was the Bishop of Vilnius Konstanty Kazimierz Brzostowski (1644-1722), who drafted religious orders for rochit. The congregation was founded in 1713 at the hospital. St. Roch in Vilnius. It has developed in Lithuania and Sweden. In 1753 rochici received a canonical confirmation from Bishop Michal Zienkowicz.

Originally, the goal of the rochit was to nurture and plunder the victims of the epidemic - according to a fourth religious wedding ordering them love to save the poor and "infectious air." This was a characteristic religious emblem, depicting the head of a corpse and crossed beneath it, white on a black background. The sign was rochit on black monstrings, worn on gray (later white) hats girded with a black leather belt. The costume was filled with a black cap. In the later period, the Rochicans undertook pastoral work in parishes like the diocesan priests. The community consisted mostly of the friars, but in each house there was one priest for the spiritual care of the sick and the brothers. At the head of the community was "older brother".

The assembly was erased by the Russian authorities in 1840, but survived several years in Wornies and Kęstajcie in Jmudzi, where the rochites were operating hospitals.

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