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The chapel is sacred to Saint Rosalia, the patron against plague. She was born to a wealthy family. As an adult, she left her family's home and lived as a wandering mendicant. Rosalia died on September 4, 1160. She became the symbol fight against indulgence, regarded as an ideal of self-control.
In the Roman Empire, Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July.The observance is sometimes called a rosatio ("rose-adornment") or the dies rosationis, "day of rose-adornment," and could be celebrated also with violets (violatio, an adorning with violets, also dies violae or dies violationis, "day of the violet ...
Rosalia (Italian: [rozaˈliːa]; Sicilian: Rusulìa; 1130–1166), nicknamed la Santuzza ("the Little Saint"), is the patron saint of Palermo in Italy, Camargo in Chihuahua, and three towns in Venezuela: El Hatillo, Zuata , and El Playón.
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) [1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, [2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia , an embalmer , to preserve her remains. [ 3 ]
Goethe visited the site in 1787, describing the sacred spot as one that better befits the humility of the saint than the sumptuous festivities that are celebrated to commemorate her retirement from the world. [3] A British traveler of the 1880s describes the festival of Santa Rosalia as resembling a pagan saturnalia. [4]
The St. Radegund Parish Church, where Jägerstätter was a sacristan. On 8 December 1940, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, he joined the Third Order of Saint Francis. In summer 1940, the local parish priest, Josef Karobath (1898-1983), offered him work as a sacristan, as Jägerstätter attended Mass daily anyway. He was therefore ...
The painting depicts Saint Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo, interceding for the city during an outbreak of the plague. In the background can be seen the port of Palermo and Monte Pellegrino . The painting was one of six of Saint Rosalia produced in Palermo by van Dyck in the late summer of 1624 and early 1625, when the city was quarantined.
Saint Rosalia (c. 1625) by Anthony van Dyck. Saint Rosalia is a c.1625 oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck.Originally owned by Giovan Francesco Serra di Cassano, it was bought by Philip IV of Spain via his Viceroy of Naples Gaspar de Bracamonte in 1664 and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid [1] [2]