Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A.: from the ItalianConnolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh)
Religion
Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A.: from the Italian
Connolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh)
Christian saints -- Italy -- Cascia -- Biography; Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457
Many other wonderful cures are recorded in the process of beatification
without a date being mentioned. We read, for example, that a woman
from Monte Leone named Pazienza, who was obsessed by the devil, was
freed from her great misfortune on being brought to the tomb of the
saint; that Ristorio Sarsio from Amatrice, who was brought almost to
death's door by pains in his sides, was cured whilst in the act of
making a vow in the saint's honour; that a child of four
years--Giovanni Andrea, son of Fabiano Fortunati--who had fallen into a
vessel of boiling water, and thereby lost sight and speech, as soon as
his mother had asked the saint's intercession for him, again spoke and
recovered sight, and in a short time was as well as ever; that a
certain Bernardino di Tiberio, who had become blind of an eye from a
wound, was brought to the saint's tomb, and instantly regained the
sight of his eye whilst the coffin was being uncovered; and that a
woman from Logna, who was returning from Cascia after being cured there
miraculously, suggested to another woman to make a vow to St. Rita in
order that a daughter of hers who was blind might recover sight. The
daughter promised St. Rita to become a nun in the Augustinian convent
in Cascia, and her vision was immediately restored. She was afterwards
Prioress of the convent for thirty-five years. Fr. Galli, who wrote
the saint's life, through fear of wearying his readers contented
himself with simply alluding to many other like miracles and wonderful
favours worked by St. Rita. Most other writers of her life have
followed his example, except that a few have given some little
additions. We, too, shall imitate these older examples, and close our
list of miracles worked by St. Rita before her beatification.
CHAPTER III
EFFICACY OF RELICS OF ST. RITA
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