on May 22, 2025, Cascia celebrates the Feast of Santa Rita, one of the most loved Sante in the world, a symbol of forgiveness, peace and hope. A spiritual and popular appointment that every year recalls thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. A particularly significant memory accompanies this year’s edition: In 2024, the pontifical was the then Cardinal Robert Prevost, today Pope Leo XIV that has always been very linked to the community of the Cascia monastery.
May 20th The four will be presented “Women of Rita”to which the prestigious will be assigned SANTA RITA international recognitionwhich since 1988 gives visibility and voice to women who, like the saint, live in everyday life universal values such as peace, dialogue, solidarity, forgiveness. Ordinary but capable people – often in silence – of transforming suffering into force, injustice into commitment, faith in concrete hope for themselves and for others. The figures that, with their testimony of life, embody the values of the saint of impossible are: Marina Mari, Sister Rita Giarretta, Yuliia Kurochka And Vittoria Scazzarriello. To conduct the event will be the meteorologist and TV journalist Colonel Francesco Laurenzi.
The women of Rita 2025
– Marina MariRaised in the hive of the monastery of Santa Rita as “bearer”, in 2003 while going to work, had a serious road accident that caused her permanent psycho-physical damage: instead of closing in the suffering, Marina found the strength to donate even more to the others. Receives the International recognition Santa Rita da Cascia 2025 for transformed a profound personal suffering into commitment to the service of others, becoming a voice for those who have no voice, in particular for the most fragile women and workers.
– Sister Rita GiarrettaOriginally from the Vicenza area, she lives today in Rome, in the Tuscolano district, where on the sixth home plan of the Magnificat house she welcomes women victims of the trafficking, offering them not only refuge but a concrete possibility of rebirth. Receives the international recognition Santa Rita da Cascia 2025 for having given their lives to the welcome and redemption of these women, returning their dignity, freedom and future.
– Yuliia Kurochkais 47 years old, he is Cristiana Ortodossa, a member of the Community of Sant’Egidio and refugees in Rome from March 2022: he received the International recognition Santa Rita 2025 for choosing the path of peace and service also in the tragedy of war, helping other refugees and becoming artisan of reconciliation and hope believing in the power of dialogue and heart that does not close to the suffering of others.
– Vittoria Scazzarrielloa doctor of Tarantine origin, she lived her husband’s disease with a deeply Christian spirit, making her existence an authentic testimony of love, sacrifice and faith. Receives the International recognition Santa Rita for having lived with love, strength and faith proof of her husband’s illness, transforming pain as a gift and care in vocation.
The ring of Santa Rita
Solemn pontifical May 22ndday of the liturgical feast of Santa Rita, the most awaited moment will be the Solemn pontificalscheduled at 11.00 in the peace roomchaired by If Cardinal Baldassare ReinaVicar general for the diocese of Rome. The celebration will bring together pilgrims, religious, authority in an atmosphere of intense spirituality and participation. At the end of the celebration, the traditional will follow Plea in Santa Rita and the Blessing of the rosessymbol of the miracle of flowering that accompanies the faith of devotees all over the world.
The ring of the feast of Santa Rita for Autism. The Santa Rita Foundation of Cascia Filantropic Ente Ets launches the awareness campaign and fundraising “A gesture of faith, a gift of grace” in support of the project “Pieninoii“An innovative cohousing model with assistance technologies for 12 young adults with autistic spectrum disorders. It will be one of the first cases in Italy, a” home of the future “for which internal spaces and furnishings integrated with home automation are expected. A concrete initiative to respond to the greatest concern of families: the future of their children “after us”.
Who will contribute to the project with a minimum donation of 16 euros will receive The ring of the feast of Santa Ritaengraved with his symbol rose. For more information festandadisantarita.org
