What did Catholics do to ease the time and maintain hope during historical pestilences such as the Black Plague?

**What did Catholics (and other Christians, if applicable) do to ease the time of historical pestilences such as the Black Plague (1347 to 1351), especially in quarantine areas?** I can imagine that Christians prayed for the end of the pestilence, but did they do any other things to make the time pass by more easily? Perhaps learning from the past, we can learn a few things for dealing with our present situation with the coronavirus-19!