Saint of the week – St Rita of Cascia: Holiness as priority

St Rita of Cascia is a unique saint, in that during her life she was a wife, a mother, and later, a nun. Born in 1381 in Cascia, a republic in the Umbrian valley of Italy, Margherita Lotti was the daughter of noble parents. Given the nickname of ‘Rita’ from her youth, St Rita was…