cascia farmholiday

Cascia is the town of Santa Rita. Also nowadays This town commemorates her message of peace and love with a torchlight procession every year on the night of the 21st May, anniversary of Saint Rita's departure from this earthly life in the year 1457. Roses, symbol of Saint Rita have an important part to play in this pageant carried by those taking part the flowers are blessed at the height of the festivities as an expression of the joy and sincere affection which the saint inspires in millions of men and women. In Cascia, in the convent now dedicated to Saint Rita, the Augustinian nuns still live by the same rule observed by the saint seven centuries ago. In the cell where she spent forty years of her earthly life important relics are kept: the coffin which received her body at her death, her wedding ring, her rosary.

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