THE PRECIOUS PEARL

With the canonization of Saint Rita in 1900, interest in and devotion to the “Precious Pearl of Umbria” spread rapidly not only in her native Italy, but throughout the world. As a women who had experienced the various states of life as wife and widow, mother and nun, St Rita has much to say to women of every time and place. This short biography will help many to find in St Rita a model they can emulate and an intercessor they can depend in needs.