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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!

#AAAGHHH it was so hard to pick one fact to share!!! Which I suppose is why I began rambling shgdjhahdksdhfkj #I was gonna talk about her bees but I think that's more widespread? bc of all the iconography?#Anyway I do loooove her bees but the name thing is something I only found out after a couple of years of being her devotee!#so I thought it was a nice piece of nerdiness to share #and as a hometown hater I find comfort in the way she isn't known by the city she was born in #(even if Roccaporena is quite a lovely place! Doesn't even have 100 inhabitants atm though sdkjfhjsdf)#Um. THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!!!! I began trembling in supersonic speed when I read it kjdsfhjkdf #I am so autistic about this 14th century nun. My God #Rita of cascia #<- sounds cooler than Margherita of Roccaporena doesn't it jsdhfksdjfh #nyx answers asks

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