Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin mitten Backing paper

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And then her monogram

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Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin mitten Backing paperDepicted in this 19th c. retablo on tin is Santa Rita de Cascia born Margherita Ferri Lotti Mancini (13811457) a window turned Augustinian nun canonized as the patroness of impossible causes and also known in many Catholic countries as patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women. (Rita apparently endured endured the physical and psychological abuse and infidelities of her nobleman husband Paolo Mancini for many years.) I love her for those