Calle de Santa Rita

The name honors Rita of Cascia, invoked by those who no longer expect a remedy. Married young to a harsh, violent man, she had two sons and endured the marriage until her husband was killed in a feud between families; she then lost both sons. Only then, widowed and alone, did she enter among the Augustinian nuns of Cascia. Tradition tells of her covered in sores and surrounded by roses blooming out of season, which is why images depict her with a wound on her forehead and a bunch of roses in her hand. The Calle de Santa Rita, in Prosperidad, joined the devout streak that fills the neighborhood’s streets.