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Puerto Rico's
Wooden Saints:
Images of
Saint Rita
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In Puerto Rico and other countries,
Saint Rita (1381–1457) is the subject of great devotion and she is
considered the patron saint and intercessor of marriages and difficult
cases, thanks to the patience with which she suffered mistreatment by
her husband and her death. She is represented by a drop of blood coming
from a thorn from a crown which pricked her while she was praying before
an image of Christ Crucified. Another miracle tells of the apparition of
a rose or figs in her garden, which appeared in the middle of
winter on the day of her death.
(translated from notes by Doreen Colón Camacho) |
