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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.
On the right hand is the side chapel of St. Zita (c. 1212-1272), a popular saint in Lucca. Her intact incorrupt body, lying on a bed of brocade, is on display in a glass shrine. On the walls of the chapel are several canvasses from the 16th and 17th centuries depicting episodes from her life.
Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was born at the Villa Pianore in the Italian Province of Lucca, 9 May 1892. [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.
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Ellen O'Keefe was an Irish immigrant to New York City, who took up nursing. Her experience led her to open a women's shelter, and later to found a religious congregation to continue her work. St. Zita's Home for Friendless Women was established at 158 East 24th Street, New York City, in 1890.
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 miracle attributed to Charles was the scientifically inexplicable healing of the Polish-born Brazilian Sister Maria Zita Gradowska of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Sister Maria Zita had suffered from pains in her legs since her youth, and later on would suffer from problems with her venous circulation and swellings, for ...
The Society of Saint Zita (Lithuanian: Lietuvių katalikių tarnaičių šv. Zitos draugija) was a Lithuanian Catholic professional society of female servants and other workers active from 1905 to 1940. It was one of the first organizations of Lithuanian women. Its members were known as zitietės. [1]