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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]
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brazil A booklet of the novena to Sweetest Name of Mary, in Bikol and printed in Binondo, Manila dated 1867. A novena (from Latin: novem, "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. [1]
Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, 1923, in Canton, Ohio, [5] a little steel-producing town which attracted thousands of immigrants. [6] Most of the town was pleasant and suitable to raise a family. Rita Rizzo, however, was born in southeast Canton, known as the red-light district or "the slums". [6]
A shrine to Our Lady of Good Health has been erected inside Holy Family of Nazareth Roman Catholic parish in Irving, Texas. A nine day Novena is celebrated every year at the parish by the Dallas Tamil Catholics Association. [16]
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.
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Saint Rita College is a private Catholic Augustinian-Recollect basic and higher education institution run by the Order of Augustinian Recollects Sisters in the Philippines. It is situated in Plaza del Carmen, Quiapo, Manila , where the Motherhouse of the Beaterio de Terciarias Agustinas Recoletas , now Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect ...