Saint Zita of Lucca
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Born to a very poor but pious family. At age twelve she became a domestic servant for the wealthy Fainelli family in Lucca, Italy, a position she kept all her life; she looked at it as a way to serve God. She often gave her own food, and sometimes that of her master, to those poorer than herself, which caused her to get in frequent trouble with her employers and the other servants in the house who resented her. However, she did such a fine job she was eventually placed in charge of the house, and entrusted with its keys. Her reputation was such that Dante in the Inferno referred to the city of Lucca as “Santa Zita”.
Born
- 27 April 1272 at Lucca, Italy of natural causes
- her tomb was re-discovered in 1580 in the Church of San Frediano
- the office in her honour approved by Pope Leo X
- 5 September 1696 by Pope Innocent XII (cultus confirmed)
- added to the Roman Martyrology in 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV
- against losing keys
- butlers
- domestic servants
- homemakers
- housemaids
- lost keys
- Lucca, Italy
- maids
- manservants
- people ridiculed for their piety
- rape victims
- servants
- servers
- single laywomen
- waiters
- waitpersons
- waitresses
- bag
- keys
- loaves
- rosary
- serving maid with a bag and keys
Additional Information
- American Catholic
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Google Directory
- Kirken i Norge - norwegian
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic Church
- Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
