Baclaran’s Sta. Rita de Cascia Parish celebrates saint’s feast day

A burst of water from a fire hose refreshed the devotees of Sta. Rita de Cascia Parish in Baclaran, Parañaque City on Sunday, May 21 during their celebration of the saint's feast day, which actually falls on May 22.

The festivities included a morning Mass and the parading of images of the saint around the district—with participants also doused with water by residents from nearby houses.

An Italian nun who lived from the late-13th to the mid-14th century in the town of Cascia in central Italy, St. Rita was married to a domestic abuser for many years, until he was killed by a rival family. She also endured the death of her sons from sickness. She became an Augustinian nun and, with many miracles attributed to her intercession, was named a patron saint of impossible causes as well as of "sterility, abuse victims, loneliness, marriage difficulties, parenthood, widows, the sick, bodily ills and wounds."

— BM, GMA News