Rita,
widow and alone, brought peace to the
souls and reconciled the families,
through the strenght of prayer and
love; therefore , she was allowed to
enter the augustinian Monastery of
Saint Magdalene, in Cascia, where she
lived 40 years, serving God and her
fellow-creatures with joyful attitude,
concerned about the happenings in the
society and the church of her time.
During the last 15 years of life, Rita
bore in her foreheatd the stigma of Christ,
fulfilling in her body the sufferings of
Jesus. Immediately after her death, she
was venerated as a Saint, according to
the evidences of the wooden sarcophagus
and the Codex miraculorum, documents of
the years 1457-62. her mortal remains,
since May 18th 1947 are kept in the Sanctuary,
into the silver and crystal urn made in
1930. recent medical investigations affirmed
that in her forehead there are the marks
of a bony wound (osteomyelitis). Her right
foot shows the marks of a disease affecting
her during the last years of her life,
maybe a scaitica; she was 157 cm tall.
Her face, hands and feet are mummified,
while there is the entire skeleton under
her augustinian habit.
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