folded reliquary Rita of Cascia

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Religious and Church art on Ebay; Fine Religious antique, coming from Europe; Religious and churchart Eindhoven, The Netherlands eBay Policy prohibits the sale of human remains and requires a disclosure of what the Relics are: These Relics are a piece of hair of the Saint and/or a piece of cloth worn by the Saint, both of which are allowed by eBay Policy. They are sacred and devotional Relics of the Church. If you have any further specific questions regarding these Holy Relics, please email me. This is a message for the Ebayemploye's who are suffering on a selective indignation disease, this is NOT A HUMAN BODY PART!!! Rita of Cascia This is a old folded reliquary with relic from Rita of Cascia. 1 x 0.8 inch. Shipping with registered priority is 15$. I want to thank the writer of Patron Saints index. Rita of Cascia Also known as Margarita of Cascia; Rita La Abogada de Imposibles Memorial 22 May Profile Daughter of Antonio and Amata Lotti; known as Peacemakers of Jesus , they had Rita late in life. From her early youth, Rita visited the Augustinian nuns at Cascia, and showed interest in a religious life. However, when she was twelve, her parents betrothed her to Paolo Mancini, an ill-tempered, abusive individual who worked as town watchman, and was dragged into the political disputes of the Guelphs and Ghibellines. Disappointed but obedient, Rita married him when she was 18, and was the mother of twin sons. She put up with Paolo's abuses for eighteen years before he was ambushed and stabbed to death. Her sons swore vengeance on their father's killers, but through Rita's prayers and interventions, they forgave the offenders. Upon the deaths of her sons, Rita again felt the call to religious life. However, some of the sisters at the Augustinian monastery were relatives of her husband's assassins, and she was denied entry for fear of causing dissension. Asking for the intervention of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Augustine o Hippo and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, she managed to bring the warring factions together, not completely, but sufficiently that t was peace, and she was admitted to the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalen at age 36. Rita lived 40 years in the convent, spending her time in prayer and charity, and working for peace in the region. She was devoted to the Passion, and in response to a prayer to suffer as Christ, she received a chronic head wound that appeared to have been caused by a crown of thorns, and which bled for 15 years. Confined to her bed the last four years of her life, eating little more than the Eucharist, teaching and directing the younger sisters. Near the end she had a visitor from her home town who asked if she'd like anything; Rita's only request was a rose from her family's estate. The visitor went to the home, but it being January, knew t was no hope of finding a flower; t, sprouted on an otherwise bare bush, was a single rose blossom. Among the other areas, Rita is well-known as a patron of desperate, seemingly impossible causes and situations. This is because she has been involved in so many stages of life - wife, mother, widow, and nun, she buried her family, helped bring peace to her city, saw her dreams denied and fulfilled - and never lost her faith in God, or her desire to be with Him. Born 1386 at Roccaparena, Umbria, Italy Died 22 May 1457 at the Augustinian convent at Cascia of tuberculosis Beatified 1 October 1627 by Pope Urban VII Canonized 24 May 1900 Patronage abuse victims; against loneliness; against sterility; bodily ills; Dalayap, Philippines; desperate causes; difficult marriages; forgotten causes; impossible causes; infertility; lost causes; parenthood; sick people; sickness; sterility victims of physical spouse abuse; widows; wounds Conditions of Sale & Payment Options Shipping costs are calculated on weight and are tfore predetermined, but multiple buying will decrease your shipping costs! All sales are final!!! NO Postal money orders Bidder to pre If you can't... read more

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