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A Religious depiction of Saint Rita during her partial Stigmata. The Black Augustinian Habit is historically inaccurate; she would have worn the Brown Robes and White Veil of the 13th-Century Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene.
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Andachtsbild - Rita von Cascia (+ 20. Mai 1447).
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Dewocjonalia: św. Ryta z Cascii (zm. 20 maja 1447).
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Saint Rita of Cascia, OSA (born Margherita Ferri Lotti; 1381 –
22 May 1457), was an Italian Catholic Widow and Augustinian Nun.
After Rita’s husband died, she joined a small community of Nuns, who later became Augustinians. Therein, she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh[1] and for the efficacy of her Prayers.
Margherita Lotti was born in 1381, in Roccaporena, a small hamlet near Cascia, Umbria,[3][4] where various sites connected with her are the focus of Pilgrimages.
Church of Saint Rita, Honiton, Devon, England.
Rita gave a public pardon at Paolo’s funeral to her husband’s murderers.[3] Paolo Mancini’s brother, Bernardo, was said to have continued the feud and hoped to convince Rita’s sons to seek revenge.
Bernardo convinced Rita’s sons to leave their Manor and live at the Mancini Villa ancestral home. As her sons grew, their characters began to change as Bernardo became their tutor. Rita’s sons wished to avenge their father’s murder. Rita, fearing that her sons would lose their Souls, tried to dissuade them from retaliating, but to no avail.
She asked God to remove her sons from the cycle of vendettas and prevent Mortal Sin and murder.[5][6] Her sons died of dysentery a year later, which pious Catholics believe was God’s answer to her Prayer, taking them by natural death rather than risk them committing a Mortal Sin punishable by Hell.
After the deaths of her husband and sons, Rita desired to enter the Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene in Cascia, but was turned away. Although the Convent acknowledged Rita’s good character and piety, the Nuns were afraid of being associated with her due to the scandal of her husband’s violent death.
After Rita’s husband died, she joined a small community of Nuns, who later became Augustinians. Therein, she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh[1] and for the efficacy of her Prayers.
Various Miracles are attributed to her intercession, and she is often portrayed with a bleeding wound on her forehead, which is understood to indicate partial Stigmata.
Pope Leo XIII canonised Rita on 24 May 1900. Her Feast Day is Celebrated on 22 May. At her Canonisation ceremony, she was bestowed the Title of “Patroness of Impossible Causes”.
Pope Leo XIII canonised Rita on 24 May 1900. Her Feast Day is Celebrated on 22 May. At her Canonisation ceremony, she was bestowed the Title of “Patroness of Impossible Causes”.
In many Catholic Countries, Saint Rita also came to be known as the Patroness of abuse victims, couples, and marriage difficulties, widows, and the sick. Her bodily remains lie in the Basilica of Santa Rita of Cascia in Umbria, Italy.
Basilica of Saint Rita, Cascia, Umbria, Italy.
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Margherita Lotti was born in 1381, in Roccaporena, a small hamlet near Cascia, Umbria,[3][4] where various sites connected with her are the focus of Pilgrimages.
Her name, Margherita, means “Pearl”. She was affectionately called Rita, the short form of her Baptismal name. Her parents, Antonio and Amata Ferri Lotti, were known to be noble, charitable people, who gained the epithet Conciliatori di Cristo (Peacemakers of Christ).[1][5]
Rita married Paolo di Ferdinando di Mancino. Her parents opposed her desire to enter a Convent, and she submitted by marrying a man described as exceedingly bad-tempered.[5]
Rita married Paolo di Ferdinando di Mancino. Her parents opposed her desire to enter a Convent, and she submitted by marrying a man described as exceedingly bad-tempered.[5]
The marriage lasted for eighteen years, during which she was remembered for her Christian values as a model wife and mother, who made efforts to convert her husband from his abusive behaviour.
Through Prayer, patience, and an ability to pacify, Rita helped her husband slowly live a more authentically Christian way of life. She bore two sons, Giangiacomo and Paolo Maria. [2]
Through Prayer, patience, and an ability to pacify, Rita helped her husband slowly live a more authentically Christian way of life. She bore two sons, Giangiacomo and Paolo Maria. [2]
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Rita’s husband became the victim of a family conflict and was murdered while their sons were still young.[3]
Rita gave a public pardon at Paolo’s funeral to her husband’s murderers.[3] Paolo Mancini’s brother, Bernardo, was said to have continued the feud and hoped to convince Rita’s sons to seek revenge.
Bernardo convinced Rita’s sons to leave their Manor and live at the Mancini Villa ancestral home. As her sons grew, their characters began to change as Bernardo became their tutor. Rita’s sons wished to avenge their father’s murder. Rita, fearing that her sons would lose their Souls, tried to dissuade them from retaliating, but to no avail.
She asked God to remove her sons from the cycle of vendettas and prevent Mortal Sin and murder.[5][6] Her sons died of dysentery a year later, which pious Catholics believe was God’s answer to her Prayer, taking them by natural death rather than risk them committing a Mortal Sin punishable by Hell.
After the deaths of her husband and sons, Rita desired to enter the Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene in Cascia, but was turned away. Although the Convent acknowledged Rita’s good character and piety, the Nuns were afraid of being associated with her due to the scandal of her husband’s violent death.
Chapel of The Virgin,
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Chapelle de la Vierge,
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She implored her three Patron Saints (John the Baptist, Augustine of Hippo, and Nicholas of Tolentino) to assist her, and she set about the task of establishing Peace between the hostile parties of Cascia.[2][5][9]
Popular Religious tales recall that the bubonic plague, which ravaged Italy at the time, infected Bernardo Mancini, causing him to relinquish his desire to feud any longer with the Chiqui family.
Rita was able to resolve the conflicts between the families, and, at the age of thirty-six, was allowed to enter the Monastery.[10]
Legend has it that the Abbess of the Monastery put Rita’s vocation and obedience to the test by making her water a dry vine bush in the Cloister of the Monastery. The wood, after some time, came back to life and bore fruit.
During her forty years of Monastic life, Rita not only dedicated herself to Prayer, Penance ,and Fasting in the Monastery, but also she often went out to serve the Poor and Sick of Cascia.
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She remained at the Monastery, living by the Augustinian Rule, until her death from tuberculosis on 22 May 1457.[11]
Augustinian Father Agostino Cavallucci from Foligno wrote the first biography of Rita based on oral tradition. The Vita was published in 1610 by Matteo Florimi in Siena. The work was composed long before her Beatification, but the Title page nevertheless refers to Rita as already “Blessed”.[12]
Rita was Beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1626.[15]
She was Canonised on 24 May 1900[1] by Pope Leo XIII. Her Feast Day is 22 May.
On the 100th Anniversary of her Canonisation in 2000, Pope Saint John Paul II noted her remarkable qualities as a Christian woman: “Rita interpreted well the “feminine genius” by living it intensely in both physical and spiritual motherhood.”[6]
She has acquired the reputation, together with Saint Philomena and Saint Jude, as a Saint of Impossible Causes.[4][6]
In the 20th-Century, a large Sanctuary was built in honour of Saint Rita in Cascia. The Sanctuary and the house where Rita was born are among the most active Pilgrimage sites of Umbria.
The National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was built in 1907 and is a popular Pilgrimage and devotional site.
A Church dedicated to Saint Rita is located in Kerala, India. It is the only Church in Asia to have Relics of Saint Rita.
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