

After this Rosalia was venerated as the patron saint of Palermo, and a sanctuary was built in the cave where her remains were discovered. After her remains were carried around the city three times, the plague ceased.

He did what she had asked in the apparition. The hunter climbed the mountain and found her bones in the cave as described.

She ordered him to bring her bones to Palermo and have them carried in procession through the city. During this hardship Rosalia reportedly appeared first to a sick woman, then to a hunter, to whom she indicated where her remains were to be found. On the cave wall she wrote "I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of delle Rose, and Quisquina, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ." 1624 plague Tradition says that she was led to the cave by two angels. Devoutly religious, she retired to live as a hermit in a cave on Mount Pellegrino, where she died alone in 1166. Rosalia was born of a Norman noble family that claimed descent from Charlemagne. Biography A statue of Saint Rosalia in Monterey, California

From 2020 onwards she has been invoked by some citizens of Palermo to protect the city from COVID-19. She is especially important internationally as a saint invoked in times of plague. Rosalia ( Italian: Sicilian: Rusulìa 1130–1166), nicknamed la Santuzza ("the Little Saint"), is the patron saint of Palermo in Italy, Camargo in Chihuahua, and three towns in Venezuela: El Hatillo, Zuata, and El Playón.
