COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
unknown
Title:
Santa Rita de Casia
Materials display:
oil on tin (metal)
Material name:
oil paint
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457
Work type:
paintings (visual works)
Accession number:
RU0719
Measurements display:
25.4 x 17.78 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Rita de Casia (Saint Rita of Cascia)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
1381-1457
Feast Day:
May 22
Patronage:
Patronage: of girls in need of husbands, of marriage, of mothers, of those in bad marriages, of all who must bear suffering; for the impossible; against sickness. There was a fear that too great a devotion to Santa Rita might bring a woman both the virtue of patience and a bad husband to help her exercise it. Rita probably also had penitential associations.
Note:
By her parents' wish, she married a man who turned out to be a bad husband; became a nun when he and her two sons all died; had mystical experiences during one of which a thorn from Christ's crown pierced her forehead. Wearing a nun's habit, holding a cross and a skull, occasionally with a wound on her forehead or the full stigmata.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED