Santa Rita intercedes for the eternal life of her twins who are still alive and miraculously enters the convent with the doors closed.
The intercession for the eternal life of his twin sons still alive
Santa Rita wanted to be a religious since childhood. But before she became a nun, she was married to Paolo Mancino, a very brutal man, a buck, without fear of God and belonging to a large Italian political faction. As a young man Paolo fell in love with Rita, the marriage was later arranged by the family. Understanding the boy's explosive character, she accepted him, as he could create a great deal of confusion for her and her family if she refused. He lived with him for 18 years and had two twin sons: Giangiacomo and Paolo Maria: both temperamental, pulling the father.
Despite countless mistreatment he suffered, he never complained and always seek to obey him and set a good example. His holiness gradually converted him until he became a respectful Christian. But his previous confusions did not abandon him, for he created many enemies, until one of them killed him in 1406. When she found her husband dead, she tried to hide her shirt full of blood so her children wouldn't think it was murder, but it didn't help. Giangiacomo and Paolo Maria wanted revenge and swore the killer to death! But Rita understood God's designs to human beings so that each one would reach his salvation and knew that young people could lose their ETERNAL life if they committed such sin.
This led her to the decision to put their earthly life in Jesus' hands, asking and interceding God to take them to heaven if in the future they became murderers. She understood perfectly that it was preferable to see the children killed on earth than killed eternally!
God observed the future of the young, and took them away through diseases from the plague of that time some time later, one followed by the other in a short interval... But before death the boys definitively forgave the killer. But do not think that it was easy for the saint this request to God and fleece to die. She went into great despair and went to live in a cave to stand in prayer and to renew her strength with God. It remained so until 1407, a period in which his childhood desire to enter the convent of the Augustinian sisters in the city of Cassia flourished most strongly.
The miraculous entrance of Santa Rita in the convent with the doors closed
She suffered several resistances from the sisters regarding her entry into the convent, because she had already been married and was with a husband and dead children, so they interpreted that it was perhaps just a desire to be a nun out of desperation and not by vocation.
Then, in his daily prayers, he began to pray for the intercession of his three patron saints: St. John the Baptist, St. Augustine, and St. Nicholas of Tolentine. But when it already seemed impossible to join that Christian order, there was intercession in her cause: one night, Rita hears three calls by her name: Rita, Rita, Rita! But he found no one, returning to his routine prayers. But the call returned. When he opened the door of his house, he came across St. John the Baptist, St. Augustine and St. Nicholas. They asked her to accompany them. He began to follow them through the streets of the city to the door of the convent of Santa Maria Magdalene, where he received the refusals for their entry. The door was very well locked because it was already night.
Suddenly the three saints disappear and she feels a slight jerk, going into ecstasy. At dawn the nuns find her inside the convent, sleeping on the floor, with the doors still closed. This miracle made them understand that it was divine providence for them to accept Rita in the convent, where she then finally took her vows and became a nun.
In this place she would perform countless miracles later through her intercession with God, just as she would receive a great trial in her life: the thorn of Christ's crown, which we will report in another post. He also received in his life in the convent the confirmation of God that his children and her husband were saved eternally through the miracle of figs and rose: CLICK HERE to read the post of this miracle. SEE or READ more about the life of Santa Rita de Cássia by accessing the following links of the references of this text.
References:
CANÇÃO NOVA PLAY. Santa Rita de Cássia - O Filme
CANÇÃO NOVA. Blog - Santos para crianças: Santa Rita
SANTUÁRIO SANTA RITA DE CÁSSIA - LONDRINA. Milagres
PADRE REGINALDO MANZOTTI. Santa Rita - Corpo Incorrupto.
PARÓQUIA SANTA RITA. História da PadroeiraARQUIDIOCESE DE SOROCABA. História de Santa Rita de Cássia