Saint Rosalia
Italian saint of Palermo, honored for divine intermediation during the plague there · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 1130 to 1170 · aged 40
Saint Rosalia is read about 467 times a day, in 35 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 16 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 361 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A twelfth-century hermit who lived in a cave on a Sicilian mountain, invoked against plague for eight centuries - and again in 2020, when Palermo turned to her during COVID-19.
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Luigi Morgari (1857-1935) - La prima comunione di S. Rosalia (1926) - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, May 21 2026 - 2About this person
Rosalia was born in 1130 and withdrew from the world to live as a hermit on Monte Pellegrino, outside Palermo. She died there in 1166, a virgin who had chosen solitude over the life her station might have offered. Centuries later, she became the city's patron saint, her intercession sought especially when disease arrived. That pull endured: she is venerated not only in Palermo but in Camargo, Chihuahua, and three Venezuelan towns. When the pandemic reached Sicily in 2020, some citizens invoked her name again, the old reflex unbroken.
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