Religion - Santa Rita De Cassia - Santa Rita was born Margherita Lotti in Roccaporena, Italy in 1381. The day after her baptism, Rita was surrounded by a swarm of white bees, which went in and out of her baby's mouth without harming her. Instead of being worried, his family believed that he was marked as a virtuous person and devoted to God.
At an early age, she begged her parents to allow her to enter a convent but was instead arranged to marry a cruel man named Paolo Mancini. Young Rita became a wife and mother at the age of twelve and her husband was an angry man. In anger, he often abused Rita verbally and physically. He was also known to chase other women and he had many enemies.
Paolo makes many enemies in Cascia, but Rita's influence on him ultimately leads him to become a better man. He even left out the family feud between Mancini and Chiquis. Unfortunately, the feud between the Mancini and Cascia families became increasingly volatile, resulting in Paolo being betrayed and killed by one of his own allies.
After her husband's death, Rita granted a public pardon to his murderers, but Paolo's brother Bernardo was still angry and encouraged Rita's two sons, Giovanni Antonio and Paulo Maria, to join the hostilities. Under their uncle's leadership, Rita's two sons become more like their father before Rita married him, and they want to avenge their father's murder.
Rita tries to stop them, but her two sons are determined to avenge their father's death. Rita prayed to God, asking God to take her children before they lost their souls because of the grave sin of murder. One year later, his prayers were answered when his two sons contracted dysentery and died.
After the death of her sons, Rita attempted to enter the convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Cascia, but she was not allowed to join. Although Rita's character and piety were acknowledged, her husband's ties to the feuding family were greatly feared.
When Rita persists, the convent tells her that she can join if she can find a way to mend the wounds between Chiquis and Mancini. After asking John the Baptist, Augustine of Hippo, and Nicholas of Tolentino to help him in his task, he attempted to end the feud. The bubonic plague had spread throughout Italy at that time, and when Bernardo Mancini became infected, he finally put an end to the feud with the Chiqui family.
After the conflict was resolved, Rita was allowed to enter the convent at the age of thirty-six. It is said that she was transported to the monastery of Saint Magdalene by appointment at night by three patron saints whom she invited.
While at the monastery, Rita carried out her duties faithfully and often received the sacraments. Rita had great devotion to the Passion of Christ, and one day, when she was sixty years old, she asked, "Please let me suffer like you, Divine Savior."
After his request, a wound appeared on his forehead, as if a thorn from Christ's crown had pierced it. It left a deep wound, one that didn't heal, and it caused him to suffer until the day he died.
It is said that as she neared the end of her life, Rita was bedridden with tuberculosis. That's when he asked a visiting cousin to pick roses from the garden at his old house. Since it was January, her cousin did not expect to find roses, but there was one in bloom, which she took back to Rita at the convent.
He died four months later, on 22 May 1457.
After his death, he was buried in the basilica of Cascia, and was later found to be incorrupt. Her body can be found today in the shrine of Saint Rita in Cascia. Rita was beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1627 and canonized by Pope Leo XII on 24 May 1900.
Saint Rita is often depicted in a black habit, which is historically inaccurate as the uniform of the nuns at the Convent of Saint Magdalene was a cream or brown color. She is also often shown holding thorns, a large Cross, or a palm leaf with three thorns to represent her husband and two sons. In some images, Saint Rita is seen having a wound on her forehead, holding a rose, or surrounded by bees.
Prayer to Santa Impossible cases
St. Wonderful Rita, miracle worker, from your sanctuary in Cascia, where in all your beauty you sleep in peace, where your relics breathe the breath of heaven, turn your merciful eyes to me who suffers and weeps!
You saw my poor bleeding heart surrounded by thorns. You see, beloved Saint, that my eyes have no more tears to shed, so much I cry! Tired and hopeless as I was, I felt a dying prayer on my lips.
Should I despair in this crisis of my life? come, St. Rita, come to my aid and help me. Are you not called the Saint of the Impossible, the Defender of the despairing? So honor Your name, grant me from God the favor that I ask for.
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