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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.
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 and for the efficacy of her prayers .
The Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia is a 20th-century Roman Catholic minor basilica church, sanctuary, and convent located in the town of Cascia, province of Perugia, region of Umbria, Italy. History
Funerals have one rule above all others: respect the wishes of the bereaved immediate family. So Mayor Brandon Johnson made the correct call in not attending St. Rita of Cascia Catholic Church on ...
St. Rita of Cascia High School is an all-boys Catholic high school located in the Ashburn neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side., United States. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, is operated by the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel, a Catholic jurisdiction of the Order of Saint Augustine, and is a member of the Augustinian Secondary Education Association.
St. Laurence School; St. Rita of Cascia School; St. Ignatius School (consolidated into Northside Catholic Academy, campus closed) St. Jerome School (consolidated into Northside Catholic Academy, campus closed) St. Timothy School (consolidated into Northside Catholic Academy, campus closed) Closed in 1995: St. John Bosco School; Closed in 1996:
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]
Santa Rita is an ancient Roman Catholic church in Cremona, Italy.While it had been initially dedicated to the saints Margherita and Pelagia; since being reconsecrated in 1929 on May 22, the day devoted to St Rita of Cascia, the church has been affiliated with the latter saint.