St. Rita of Cascia (M 015) Notebook

Wife, Mother, Widow, Nun—St. Rita of Cascia (1386-1457) experienced many stages of life. Life, however, had a way of putting her between a rock and a hard place. For this reason, she is venerated as patron saint of lost and impossible causes. Devoted to Christ’s Passion, she received a partial stigmata at the age of sixty: a chronic wound in the forehead as if from a crown of thorns that bled for the next fifteen years. It is her principal attribute. + Feast: May 22 + Image Source (M 015): Antique image of St. Rita [of Cascia] from a 1904 devotional print in chromolithography originally published by A. & M. B. [Albrecht & Meister of Berlin], Germany. From the designer’s collection of religious ephemera. + Frame: Adaptation of a border on a 19th-century devotional print. From the designer’s collection of religious ephemera. + Prefer a different background colour? The Colour Palette postcard for this image provides suggested coordinating hues. Colour Palette postcards are found in an image's associated COLLECTION and in the Special COLLECTION devoted just to colour palettes.