Feast 22 May
Widow, Augustinian, thorn in the forehead. Patroness of impossible cases with Jude.
Sacred art
No photograph of St. Rita of Cascia is shown. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a substitute for the life written below.
Died 1457. A bad marriage, two sons, a convent that did not want her, then a wound like the crown. The bees, the roses.
If it belongs to Rita, it is here, with a door back into the story.
Siena, then Cascia1330
A priest takes Communion to a sick man, slips the Host unworthily into his breviary, and later finds it bleeding through the pages. The stained leaf is kept by the Augustinians of Cascia.
CasciaDied 1457
Wife, mother, widow, Augustinian nun. A thorn-wound in her forehead for fifteen years; roses and figs in January at her death; a body still shown. Patron of impossible cases.
