Saint Rita of Cascia

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Saint Rita of Cascia was a 15th-century Italian Augustinian nun venerated in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of impossible causes, difficult marriages, and abused wives.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Saint Rita of Cascia canonical 2
Saint Rita 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Augustinian nun
Catholic saint
Christian mystic
Italian Roman Catholic
associatedWith Cascia NERFINISHED
Roccaporena NERFINISHED
beatificationDate 1627
beatifiedBy Pope Urban VIII NERFINISHED
birthDate c. 1381
birthName Margherita Lotti NERFINISHED
birthPlace Roccaporena NERFINISHED
near Cascia, Umbria, Italy
canonizationDate 24 May 1900
canonizationStatus canonized saint
canonizedBy Pope Leo XIII NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship Italy
deathDate 22 May 1457
deathPlace Cascia, Umbria, Italy NERFINISHED
devotionalPractice invoked in hopeless and impossible cases
era 15th century
feastDay 22 May
givenName Rita NERFINISHED
iconographicAttribute Augustinian habit
figs
roses
wound on the forehead
knownFor devotion to prayer and penance
reconciliation and forgiveness
stigmata-like wound on her forehead
languageOfName Italian
majorShrine Basilica of Saint Rita of Cascia NERFINISHED
Cascia, Italy NERFINISHED
memberOf Order of Saint Augustine NERFINISHED
numberOfChildren 2
patronage abused wives
desperate causes
difficult marriages
impossible causes
lost and impossible causes
parenthood
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
residence Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene, Cascia NERFINISHED
spouse Paolo Mancini NERFINISHED
title Religious
Saint
Widow
veneratedIn Anglican Communion
Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

some Lutheran churches

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Santa Rita namedAfter Saint Rita of Cascia
subject surface form: Santa Rita (Paraíba)
Santa Cruz patronSaint Saint Rita of Cascia
subject surface form: Santa Cruz (Rio Grande do Norte)
Santa Rita, New Mexico, United States namedAfter Saint Rita of Cascia
subject surface form: Santa Rita, New Mexico
this entity surface form: Saint Rita