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Zita (c. 1212 – 27 April 1272), also known as Sitha or Citha, is an Italian saint, the patron saint of maids and domestic servants. She is often appealed to in order to help find lost keys . Zita entered domestic service at the age of 12, and served the same family for almost 50 years.
[1]: 1 The unusual name Zita was given to her after Zita, a popular Italian saint who had lived in Tuscany in the 13th century. [ 2 ] : 16 She was the third daughter and fifth child of the deposed Robert I, Duke of Parma , and his second wife, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal , a daughter of King Miguel of Portugal and his wife Adelaide of ...
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A church at the site, dedicated to the saint Zita of Lucca, was founded by Tuscan merchants in the early 14th-century and then attached to the Dominican order.In 1583, a new larger church was erected using designs by Giuseppe Giacalone, and completed in 1603.
The exterior of the oratory has stone accents for windows and pilasters. The entry portal has a coat of arms with an apparent tree. Anterooms to the main oratory hall have portraits of the former directors of the confraternity. The two entrance doors to the main hall are flanked by stucco telamons.
Rekhta is an Indian web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]
Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (1447–1508, buried in Aden, the patron saint of Aden, credited with introducing Qadiri Sufism to Ethiopia and coffee to the Arab world) Ahmad al-Badawi (1200–1276, buried in Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque, most popular saint in Egypt) Khwaja Ahrar (1404–1490 AD), played a significant role in establishing the Naqshbandi Order
In 1913, the society separated from the Mutual Assistance Society and became an independent Society of Saint Zita. [2] It had about 800 members. [5] During World War I, the society established a sash making workshop which employed up to 34 women and a soup kitchen which provided free meals to 50–70 people per day. [6]