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Rita of Cascia, OSA (born Margherita Ferri Lotti; 1381 – 22 May 1457), was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun.After Rita's husband died, she joined a small community of nuns, who later became Augustinians, where she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh [1] and for the efficacy of her prayers.
Many convents are celebrated for the saints whom they produced, such as Montefalco in Central Italy, the home of St. Clare of the Cross (or St. Clara of Montefalco, d. 1308), and Cascia, near Perugia, where St. Rita died in 1457. In the suppressed German convent of Agnetenberg near Dülmen, in Westphalia, lived Anne Catherine Emmerich. [2]
A miracle involving roses occurred to Saint Rita of Cascia. The winter before the end of her life, a cousin visited her and asked her if she desired anything from her old home at Roccaporena. Saint Rita responded by asking for a rose and a fig from the garden. It was January and her cousin did not expect to find anything due to the snowy weather.
Rita Carrey, Jim Carrey’s sister, has died. The news was announced on Nov. 15 in a Facebook post shared by her husband, Alex, on her page. Rita Carrey died on Nov. 14, surrounded by family and ...
Jim Carrey's older sister Rita has died, PEOPLE can confirm. "It is with heavy heart and my deepest sadness, surrounded by her family and friends Rita passed away peacefully and quietly on ...
Rita Reagan, who taught in Jacksonville schools for 30 years and led Springfield and Arlington preservation efforts, died Wednesday. Rita Reagan, 1940-2023: Norman Studios, Springfield ...
Joaquina Maria Mercedes Josefa Barcelo y Pages, also known as Consuelo Barcelo y Pages, was a Roman Catholic Spanish Augustinian tertiary who cofounded the Augustinian Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation along with her sister, Rita Barcelo y Pages, in the Philippines. Born on July 24, 1857, and died on August 4, 1940, at the age of 83 in Manila.
"Rita may have been killed because she was a man who lived as a woman. Therefore I insisted that her status as what I saw as a man living as a woman was germane to the story."