Her sons wished to exact revenge on their father’s murderers. Knowing murder was wrong, she tried to persuade them from retaliating, but to no avail. She, instead, prayed to God for Him to take away the lives of her sons instead of seeing them commit such a terrible sin. In religious history, God heard St. Rita’s words and her sons died of natural causes a year later.
One day, while living at the convent Rita said, “Please let me suffer like you, Divine Saviour”. Suddenly, a thorn from a figure of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ fell from the crown of thorns and wounded Rita’s forehead. As a result, depictions of St. Rita show a forehead wound to represent this event. The wound became a symbol on St Rita’s forehead.
