svatý Roch
Czechia
The Church of St Roch sits within the grounds of Strahov Monastery in Hradčany, and it exists because of a promise. When plague swept through Bohemia in 1599, Emperor Rudolf II vowed to build a new church in honour of the plague saints, Sebastian and Roch. With the support of the Strahov abbot Lohelius, a site was chosen in 1602 on monastery land where a derelict chapel stood, and the foundation stone was laid on 7 June 1603. That earlier chapel, the first sacred building here, was medieval and dedicated to Saints Felix and Adauctus. So the ground you stand on was holy long before the emperor's thanksgiving.
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