![]() ![]() Never wavering in her devotion to God, Rita prayed that her husband would change his ways. Settling his personal disputes with violence, Mancini created a tense family environment for Rita and the two sons she had with him. Though he was a good provider, he soon proved to be an abusive, promiscuous husband. Instead, she had to accept a marriage they contracted for her with a man named Paolo Mancini. Though she had always wanted to be a nun, Rita’s parents feared for her future security as there was a schism in the church and many religious orders were closing their doors. She was called Rita because of a vision of an angel her mother had who named the baby while declaring, “You will give birth to a daughter marked with the seal of sanctity, gifted with every virtue, a helper to the helpless and an advocate of the afflicted.” As proof of this prophecy, bees, a sign of divine presence, always hovered over her crib as she slept, never harming or waking her. Margarita Lotti was born to an older farming couple in Roccaporena, Italy. Canonized almost 500 years after her birth, she is the first declared female saint of the 20th Century. In her own lifetime she was famous for the power of her prayers to change any situation and it was said that she could accomplish the impossible. ![]() Knowing the powerlessness and despair of those in bad marriages she is invoked for help in desperate times. ![]() Symbols: roses, thorns, bees, wounded headĪn abused wife, a mother who’s children died, a widow of a murdered husband, and finally, a nun, Saint Rita experienced many lives in her time on earth. Keywords: Impossible, Desperation, bad marriages, spousal abuse, widows, bodily ills, loneliness, smallpox, sterility ![]()
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