Saint Rosalia

The Holy Rosalia, la Santuzza, born Rosalia Sinibaldi (* around 1130 in Palermo, Sicily, † September 4, 1166 same place ) was a hermit on Monte Pellegrino. It is one of the patron saints of Palermo.

Anniversaries are September 4 ( death) and also in Sicily July 15 (translation).

Life

Contemporary sources for the existence of the saints does not exist, all biographies are developed only after translation, to be presented in the canonization process. All data except the translation are fictitious. As the oldest evidence of the cult of St. Rosalia, a graduate of Frederick II for the Cistercian monastery of S. Maria della Sambucina in Calabria is considered from January 1199, in which a tenimentum ... quod dicitur Sancte Rosalie is confirmed. The corresponding entries in a diploma of the Empress Constance of May 1196 are registered on a shave as a correction, so that the introduction of the cult in Calabria possibly occurred in the meantime. For biographies of the saints can be however, this does not win anything.

According to one version of the Lives of Rosalia Sinibaldi grew up as the daughter of Count and Countess Sinibaldi Quisquina on the Sicilian court. Even as a young girl, she dedicated her life to God. The revolt of the Norman barons against King William I and his Grand Admiral Maio in 1160 Rosalia forced to leave the royal court, as her father was executed for conspiracy and the family was expropriated. She retired to a cave on Mount Pellegrino into solitude, where he died six years later. In another version, a stay in a cave near Santo Stefano Quisquina is described. In support of this story is a fake inscription was placed in the grotto. In iconography, Rosalia was sometimes depicted as a Greek nun. A membership to the Greek population in Palermo is also not improbable than the other stories, but did not fit into the conceptual world of the early 17th century. An Italo- Byzantine saints combination is also found on the oldest iconographic testimony from the 13th century. On one originally from the Martorana icon, which is now preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Palermo, is the focus of the Holy Oliva, the former patron saint of Palermo, accompanied by the Holy Elias, Venera and Sancta Rvsalia. For the Vita of the new saint of Palermo has made ​​borrowings from the Vita its predecessor.

Completely forgotten, she appeared in the July 1625 two hermits who lived near their den. She led them to their last resting place, where her body was found incorrupt with a rosary on his head. When her body was taken to Palermo, there went out a rampant plague immediately. Your final resting place she finally found in the Cathedral of Palermo. Your hermitage ( Santuario di Santa Rosalia ) on Monte Pellegrino ( Pilgrim Mountain ) is a place of pilgrimage today.

Aftereffect

The Archbishop of Palermo, Cardinal Giannettino Doria, commissioned the Jesuit Giordano Cascini with the study and authentication of the remains of Rosalia - Cascini published a three-volume Vita di S. Rosalia, the first of numerous publications on the saints. The process initiated by Doria led on January 26, 1630 for inclusion in the Roman calendar of saints by Pope Urban VIII. Then are the writings of Pietro Antonio Tornamira and Vincenzo Auria, after the mid-17th century, the general picture of the Holy determine. Publications in Spanish have appeared in the 17th century in Palermo, which belonged to the dominion of the Spanish crown. First publications on the Saints in German language published in 1690 and 1722. Among the festivals and the equipment of the hard carts Program writings are preserved since the late 17th century.

Anniversaries

Representation

Shown is the hl. Rosalia with loose hair and a wreath of white roses, with cross and skull.

Patrozinien

• Rosalie Church ( and chapels )

Swell

• Original delli testimonij di Santa Rosalia: trascrizione del Manoscritto 2 Qq e della Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo 89. A cura di Rosalia Claudia Giordano; presentazione di Filippo Guttoso appendice iconografica a cura di Rosalba Guarneri Enea. Palermo: Biblioteca Comunale 1997