St. Rita of Cascia, Glimmering Art

The Framing This jeweled art print is framed with glass in a nearly 3” wide antique gold, very ornate, wood baroque frame. This is a museum quality picture frame (not the typical light weight imitation), made with real wood. The frame back is professionally finished with a clean backing (black paper) and includes a mounted wire attached to framing straps, making it ready to hang. This is a 8" x 10" original jewel art piece, framed with an overall picture frame size of approximately 15 x 17 (inches).

The Image This is a very popular saint know worldwide, St. Rita of Cascia. This is uniquely detailed by the artist using different varieties of paints. No two are alike as they are individually handmade. This provides each piece to be an original creation.

The Story St. Rita was born in 1381 at Roccaporena near Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. She married at age 12 Paolo Mancini. Her parents arranged her marriage, despite the fact that she repeatedly begged them to allow her to enter a convent. Mancini was a rich, quick-tempered, immoral man, who had many enemies in the region. St. Rita endured his insults, abuse, and infidelities for 18 years, and bore two sons with Mancini, Giangiacomo Antonio and Paolo Maria. Although she tried to raise them with Catholic values, her sons were unholy for most of their lives. Toward the end of her husband's life, St. Rita helped convert him to live in a more pious manner. Although Mancini became more congenial, his allies betrayed him, and he was violently stabbed to death. Before his death, he repented to St. Rita and the Church, and she forgave him for his transgressions against her. After Mancini's murder, her sons wished to exact revenge on their father's murderers. Knowing murder was wrong, she tried to persuade them from retaliating, but to no avail. She, instead, prayed to God for Him to take away the lives of her sons instead of seeing them commit such a terrible sin. In religious history, God heard St. Rita's words and her sons died of natural causes (disease) a year later. After the deaths of her husband and sons, St. Rita desired to enter the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene at Cascia but was turned away, since although the convent acknowledged Rita's good character and piety, it was afraid of being associated with her due to the scandal of her husband's violent death. However, she persisted in her cause and was given a condition before the convent could accept her; the difficult task of reconciling her family with her husband's murderers. She was able to resolve the conflicts between the families and, at the age of 36, was allowed to enter the monastery. However, her actual entrance into the monastery has been described as a miracle. During the night, when the doors to the monastery were locked and the sisters were asleep, St. Rita was miraculously transported into the convent by her patron saints Saint John the Baptist, Saint Augustine, and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. When she was found inside the convent in the morning and the sisters learned of how she entered, they could not turn her away. She remained at the monastery, living by the Augustinian Rule, until her death.

This is another of our original designs, which we proudly custom frame and therefore not found anywhere else. We usually ship it FedEx ground and carefully packaged it to ensure it arrives to you perfectly in one piece. All our frames are shipped with insurance added, so our customers will never have to assume any shipping risks.