10 Shocking Things You Don’t Know About Saint Rita of Cascia – Click Here To Read

10 Shocking Things You Don’t Know About Saint Rita of Cascia – Click Here To Read

According to History , Saint Rita of Cascia (Born Margherita Lotti 1381 – 22 May 1457) was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Rita was a child bride, married before the age of 12. The marriage lasted for eighteen years, during which she is remembered for her Christian values as a model wife and mother who made efforts to convert her husband from his abusive behaviour. Upon the murder of her husband by another feuding family, she sought to dissuade her sons from revenge.10 Shocking Things You Don't Know About Saint Rita of Cascia - Click Here To Read

Below are the 10 Shocking Things You Don’t Know About Saint Rita of Cascia


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1. Pope Leo XIII canonised Rita on 24 May 1900.

2. At her canonisation ceremony she was bestowed the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes, while in many Catholic countries, Rita came to be known as the patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women.

3. Her incorrupt body remains in the Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia.

4. Saint Rita had her first child at the age of twelve.

5. Various religious symbols are related to Rita. She is depicted holding a thorn (symbol of her penance and stigmata), holding a large Crucifix, holding a Palm leaf with three crowns (representing her two sons and husband), flanked by two small children (her sons), holding a Gospel book, holding a skull (a symbol of mortality) and holding a flagella whip (a symbol of her mortification of the flesh)

6. When Rita was approximately sixty years of age, she was meditating before an image of Christ crucified. Suddenly, a small wound appeared on her forehead, as though a thorn from the crown that encircled Christ’s head had loosened itself and penetrated her own flesh. It was considered to be a partial Stigmata and she bore this external sign of union with Christ until her death in 1457.

7. A large sanctuary of Rita was built in the early 20th century in Cascia. The sanctuary and the house where she was born are among the most active pilgrimage sites of Umbria.

8. Saint Rita is often credited as also being the unofficial patron saint of baseball due to a reference made to her in the 2002 film

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