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Honiton Lace

12 August 2010

Honiton Lace
will hang in the
Shrine of St Rita of Cascia
at
St Rita’s Centre, Honiton

A framed copy of the Honiton Lace in on sale now for £10.00
            contact us for your copy at: stritas@btinternet.com


An authentic relic complete with provenance of St Rita is kept at Rita’s Centre and recently, Pat Perryman the world famous Honiton Lace maker has made a piece of the famous Honiton Lace depicting St Rita. The lace picture will hang in St Rita’s Chapel.


St Rita’s Centre is named after the much loved St Rita of Cascia.
St Rita is, by far, the best known and best loved of the Augustinian saints.  She has become known as the Advocate of the Helpless, even the Saint of Hopeless Cases.

Part of Rita’s attraction is probably the fact that, during a hard and difficult life, she lived through just about all states of life any Christian woman can experience – from girlhood, through married life and widowhood, to the Religious Life of an enclosed Augustinian nun.

Her shrine in England is in St Rita’s Chapel, St Rita’s Centre, Honiton, Devon. Each year on 22nd May, St Rita’s feast day; we have a wonderful celebration of our patron saint.   Mass is celebrated, in a marquee hired for the occasion, and hundreds of roses are blessed and distributed to the sick.

 

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