• 22 mai: Sainte Rita de Cascia

    Femme du dialogue et de la paix

    Épouse, mère, veuve, moniale. Tel est le parcours humain qui conduisit Rita à devenir sainte. Elle compte parmi les femmes les plus connues au monde. Sans aucun doute l’une des plus aimées et invoquées au sein de la communauté ecclésiale après la Vierge Marie. Un exemple de foi inébranlable en Dieu, un amour passionné au point de partager avec le Christ, pendant quinze ans, une épine de sa couronne.

  • April 27: Saint Zita, Virgin

    The patron saint of homemakers, domestic workers, and bakers

    She was already regarded as a saint to the extent that Dante Alighieri mentioned her in his Divine Comedy shortly after her death. Zita is not only considered a saint by the poet in his own time, but is also identified with the city of Lucca. In fact, he refers to “one of the elders of Saint Zita!” in “Inferno”, Canto XXI. The “elders” were ten magistrates who governed Lucca, and Dante places one of them among those condemned to the punishment reserved to barrators.