Today is the feast day of St. Rita, patroness of lost causes, who died on this day in 1457. She was given special attention in Palermo, Sicily, last Sunday when a crucified Jesus, carried by chanting Sicilians, came to meet her at the church local’s call Santa Rita’s, but on maps read as belonging to St. Augustine. She was brought out to greet him three times, each one accompanied by chanting, and on the last round, a shower of roses.