Igreja de São Roque
The Igreja de São Roque—Church of Saint Roch—begins with a relic tied to plague. In 1505, as Lisbon was ravaged by plague, King Manuel I sent to Venice for a relic of Saint Roch, whose body had been translated there in 1485; the relic was carried in procession to a cemetery outside the city walls. Construction starts on 24 March 1506 under the patronage of São Roque, and the church is consecrated on 25 February 1515 by Bishop D. Duarte. This is also Lisbon’s earliest Jesuit church in the Portuguese world, built as a preaching-focused “auditorium-church” in the 16th century. In 1553, the Society of Jesus takes possession of the temple, and the church serves as their home for more than 200 years. After the 1755 earthquake, the damaged Jesuit complex is replaced in part when the church and residence pass to the Lisbon Holy House of Mercy (Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa). A key highlight is the 18th-century Chapel of St. …
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