#<- sounds cooler than Margherita of Roccaporena doesn't it jsdhfksdjfh
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catholicsapphic · 6 months ago
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Hi there Nyx, tell us some fact about St Rita 💗
HII!! Saint Rita of Cascia is neither named Rita nor is she from the town of Cascia!!!! Her birth name is actually Margherita (Ferri Lotti), but we call her by her nickname because that's how she was affectionately called in the place where she lived most of her life! She is also not from Cascia, but rather from a small village nearby called Roccaporena, where she spent the first (if I'm not mistaken) 56 years of her life! The 'of Cascia' comes from the fact that that's where the Augustinian convent she was eventually allowed to join was (is!!!) situated!
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