St. Zita: Saint of the Day for Saturday, April 27, 2024 (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
St. Zita was born into a poor but holy Christian family. Her older sister became a Cistercian nun and her uncle Graziano was a hermit whom the local people regarded as a saint. Zita herself always
tried to do God's will obediently whenever it was pointed out to her by her mother. At the age of twelve Zita became a housekeeper in the house of a rich weaver in Lucca, Italy, eight miles from her
home at Monte Sagrati. As things turned out, she stayed with that family for the last forty-eight years ...
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