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>You bet. I gave the abbreviated version, because of space and time
>constraints. According to her vita, Rita's husband was notoriously
>violent and also unfaithful. He spent eighteen years insulting R.
>and flaunting his mistresses. That, I think, can be summed up as
>"rotten husband."
I think, though, that she was made a saint more because of her
persistent forehead wound, care of sick nuns, and spiritual counsel.
Oh yes, and her body is incorrupt.
I confess that I just finished teaching a women's history class, and
until it wears off . . . .
Phyllis
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>Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:medieval-religion:
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>Rita of Cascia (d. 1457) Rita was married to a rotten husband, but
>she got out from under his thumb when he was murdered. Her sons
>vowed a vendetta, but Rita prayed that they wouldn't persevere---a
>powerful prayer: the boys died before they could do anyone any harm.
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>Aren't we taking her side in a rather uncritical way? Rita falls out
>with her husband; next thing we know, he comes to a sticky end. His
>sons threaten vengeance; they too sleep with the fishes. For this, Rita
>is made a saint?
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>Bill.
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