聖徒Rita出生在 Cascia 附近的 Roccaporena 的主教管區 (Spoleto), . 名字或許是Margherita 的縮短。
在該教區那裡有一座周圍有幾隻蜂圍繞的Rita 雕像。 這似乎出現在她小時候的故事中, 在她的洗禮的那天, 白色蜂群在這個嬰孩附近圍繞，而她正睡著在她的小兒床里。蜜蜂從她的嘴裡進進出出。 她的家人似乎被迷惑了而不是驚動了。現在回過頭來看, 這些蜂是她的日後被Urban 教皇VIII 世賜福的象徵。
基本介紹
- 中文名稱：聖麗塔
- 別名：Saint Rita
- 作者：Catholic Book Publishing Co
- 類型：平裝
- 是否出版：是
- 出版日期：1998-05-01
- 出版社： Catholic Book Publishing Corp
- 頁數：128
- 重量：86克
個人簡介,個人經歷,
個人簡介
Saint Rita，Cascia 的聖徒。出生在 Cascia 附近的 Roccaporena 的主教管區 (Spoleto)， 名字或許是Margherita 的縮短。在該教區那裡有一座周圍有幾隻蜂圍繞的Rita 雕像。 這似乎出現在她小時候的故事中, 在她的洗禮的那天, 白色蜂群在這個嬰孩附近圍繞，而她正睡著在她的小兒床里。蜜蜂從她的嘴裡進進出出。 她的家人似乎被迷惑了而不是驚動了。現在回過頭來看, 這些蜂是她的日後被Urban 教皇VIII 世賜福的象徵。
個人經歷
12歲時，她父母安排了她的婚姻, 儘管Rita 一再乞求他們允許她進入女修道院. Rita 的丈夫是個脾氣暴躁人。 因此她的丈夫在這個區域樹敵眾多，一夜, 他被襲擊遇害了。 (一些人認為他被伏擊, 他挑釁了其他人發生爭吵並且被殺害了。)丈夫死後，Rita 繼續照料她的兒子, 而她的兩個兒子變得像他們暴躁的父親，他們長大後發誓為父親報仇。 Rita 尋求說服他們, 告訴他們 這樣濫害會是謀殺的罪惡。 她並且向神祈禱,願 他們不會執行他們的計畫。 好像神聽到了她的禱告，兩個兒子並沒有犯下謀殺罪而是在幾年後自然死亡的。她的丈夫和兒子過世之後, 她進入在 Cascia的聖徒修道院 ，從36歲開始她呆在那裡直到她的死亡 . 她被Urban 教皇VIII 世受宣福禮。20 世紀聖徒Rita 的一個大聖所被修造了在Cascia: 它和她出生的房子是 最活躍的朝聖站點 . 聖徒Rita, 與 聖徒Jude 一起被譽為"失去的起因的" 受護神。
Saint Rita (1381 – May 22 1457), a pre-eminent Augustinian saint was born at Roccaporena near Cascia in the Diocese of Spoleto, Italy. The name is perhaps a shortening of Margherita, the Italian version of the name "Margaret".
She was wife to a rich man named Paulo, mother of twin boys named James Anthony and Paul Maria, and after the murder of her husband and the death her two sons, she spent 40 years as a nun living to the The Augustinian Rule in the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalen at Cascia.
In the parish church of Laarne, near Ghent, there is a statue of Saint Rita in which several bees feature. This seems to arise from the story that, on the day after her baptism, a swarm of white bees was seen around the baby as she was asleep in her crib. They peacefully went in and out of her mouth, not injuring her in any way. Her family seems to have been mystified rather than alarmed. Later, and in retrospect, the bees were seen as representing her subsequent beatification by Pope Urban VIII.
Rita was married at age 12 to Paolo Mancini. Her husband was brutal, dissolute and uncontrolled. She endured his insults, abuses and infidelities for eighteen years, and watched as her two sons grew up to be like their father. Her parents arranged her marriage, despite the fact that Rita repeatedly begged them to allow her to enter a convent. Rita's husband was a rich man of quick temper who made enemies in the region, and one night he was set upon and killed. Some accounts say he was ambushed, others that he provoked a quarrel and was killed. Rita's husband is said to have repented to the church and Rita toward the end of his life, and Rita forgave him for his transgressions against her.
While Rita continued to care for her sons, it became clear as they grew up they were intent upon exacting revenge for the death of their father. Rita sought to persuade them otherwise, telling them such a killing would be murder. She also prayed they would not carry out their plans. James and Paul died of natural causes within the year, begging forgiveness of their mother.
With her husband and sons gone, Rita wanted to enter the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene at Cascia but was spurned for being a widow; virginity is a requirement for entry into the convent and sisterhood. She persisted several times, though, and was finally given a condition to enter: to reconcile her family with her husband's murderers. Rita worked hard to obtain this goal, and after both clans were reconciled when she was 36 years old, Rita was allowed to enter the monastery. It is also said that, while the sisters slept and despite locked doors, Rita was miraculously transported into the convent by her patron saints John the Baptist, St. Augustine, and St. Nicholas of Tolentino. When she was found in the morning and the sisters learned how she had gotten into the convent, the sisters could not turn her away. While she was there, it is said that a thorn detached itself from Christ's crown of thorns and set itself in her forehead - hence the representation of a head wound in her appearance. Rita remained at the monastery until her death in 1457.
The symbol most often associated with Rita is the rose. One of the stories surrounding Rita and roses is that Rita would regularly bring food to the poor, which her husband prohibited her from doing. One day, her husband confronted her as she was leaving to bring bread to the poor. The bread was concealed in Rita's robes; when she uncovered the bread as her husband demanded, the bread became roses and Rita was spared her husband's wrath. At the end of her life, when Rita was bedridden in the convent, a friend from her home town visited her. The friend asked if there was anything Rita wanted from her old home. Rita replied that she would like a rose from the garden. It was January, and although the friend did not expect to find anything in the garden, she went to the house and found one rose blooming. She brought the rose back to Rita at the convent. The rose is though to represent God's love for Rita and Rita's ability to intercede on behalf of lost causes or impossible cases. Rita is often depicted holding roses or with roses nearby. On her feast day, churches and shrines of St. Rita provide roses to the congregation that are blessed by priests during mass.
She was beatified by Urban VIII in 1627, to whose private secretary Fausto Cardinal Poli, born less than ten miles from her birthplace, much of the impetus behind her cult is due; she was canonized on May 24, 1900 by Pope Leo XIII. Her feast day is May 22.
A large sanctuary of Saint Rita was built in the early 20th century in Cascia: it and the house in which she was born are among the most active pilgrimage sites of Umbria. Saint Rita, along with Saint Jude is a patron saint of "Lost Causes".
