St. Rosalia was born in 1130 into a noble family in Palermo, Italy. She was a direct descendant of Charles the Great, whose thirteen-year rule brought most of Europe together. St. Rosalia was a devoted Christian who abandoned her family's wealth and home to live a solitary, austere life of penance and prayer. She lived alone in a cave on Mount Pellegrino until she died in 1166, completely hidden from the outside world. St. Rosalia wrote on the cave wall, "I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ." With St. Rosalia, numerous apparitions and miracles were connected. In 1624, when Palmero was experiencing a plague outbreak, her body was unearthed, and her relics were carried in a procession across the city; as a result, the disease subsided. She is the patron saint of Palermo as well as El Hatillo, Zuata, and Anzoátegui in Venezuela.
O God, our Father, mercifully look upon Your people who come to You and grant through the intercession of St. Rosalia, who turned away from earthly delights to the joys of contemplation, that we may be delivered from all harm here on earth and one day be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen
Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)
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