LIMA — Medical beds, cribs and stretchers no longer in use at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center will soon be delivered to developing countries where medical supplies are in short supply.

St Augustine parish church in Valletta, which for many years served as the national centre of devotion to St Rita, is celebrating the saint’s feast on Thursday.

This year marks the 125th anniversary since Pope Leo XIII declared Rita of Cascia a saint during the Great Jubilee Year of 1900. To celebrate this, numerous commemorations took place worldwide in ...

St. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457) was born in Italy. From a young age, she had a strong faith and prayer life. Unfortunately, she was pushed into marriage. During her marriage, she raised twin boys.

She was an Augustinian saint, worthy to note two weeks after the first Augustinian, Leo XIV, became Pope. St. Rita was born in the Umbria region (from which Francis of Assisi came) in 1381.

While Robert Francis Prevost didn’t attend St. Rita of Cascia High School in Ashburn, his connection to the school runs deep. In the 1980s, he was a substitute and summer school teacher at the ...

St. Rita instead became a house of horrors for McKendrick the last two years. He struggled mightily on the mound there as a freshman on the junior varsity in 2023 and again on varsity last season.

St. Rita's Justin Buckner (11) tries to put up a shot as Providence's Tyler Cucio (23) defends during a Catholic League crossover game in Chicago on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023.

St. Rita’s welcomed visitors for private tours of the 21-bed inpatient adult behavioral health unit Friday, days before patients are expected to move from the hospital’s old behavioral unit to ...

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder has acquired the fantasy pic Rita from Jayro Bustamante, the writer-director behind its Golden Globe-nominated La Llorona, ahead of the film’s ...

Hendrix is a junior at St. Rita's School for the Deaf. Although his hearing is normal, he has speech apraxia and has been working to communicate for the last four years through ASL.