✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: April 27

St. Zita

Virgin · 1212–1272

Patron of Domestic workers, housekeepers

An Italian servant girl who spent forty-eight years in one household, treating her humble work as prayer and sharing her own food with the poor at the door.

She is the patron of maids and housekeepers — a servant who proved that sanctity is built out of ordinary chores done faithfully and with love.

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