15-695: Saint Rosalia , or Santa Rosalia (1130–1166), is the patron saint of Palermo, Italy. Santa Rosalía or Santa Rosalia may also refer to: Saint Rosalia Rosalia ( Italian: [rozaˈliːa] ; 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 [ es ] , and El Playón . She
30-413: Is especially important internationally as a saint invoked in times of plague . From 2020 onwards she has been invoked by some citizens of Palermo to protect the city from COVID-19 . Rosalia was born of a Norman noble family that claimed descent from Charlemagne . Devoutly religious, she retired to live as a hermit in a cave on Mount Pellegrino , where she died alone in 1166. Tradition says that she
45-764: Is observed in honor of Rosalia. In Italian-American communities in the United States, the July feast is generally dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel while the September feast, beginning in August, brings large numbers of visitors annually to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in New York City. Rosalia was proposed as the patron saint of evolutionary studies in a paper by G.E. Hutchinson . This
60-446: The backswimmers ( Notonectidae ), who swim upside down, Corixidae swim right side up. It is easy to tell the two types of insects apart simply by looking at the swimming position. Corixidae are unusual among the aquatic Hemiptera in that some species are non-predatory, feeding on aquatic plants and algae instead of insects and other small animals. They use their straw-like mouthparts to inject enzymes into plants. The enzymes digest
75-512: The Elder in Antwerp in 1629. Only a few copies of the work, which recounts the life of Saint Rosalia, survive. Corixidae 52 genera in 5 subfamilies Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera . They are found worldwide in virtually any freshwater habitat and a few species live in saline water. There are about 500 known species worldwide, in 55 genera, including
90-625: The Festino di Santa Rosalia is held each year on 14 July, and continues into the next day. It is a major social and religious event in the city. on feast of St. Rosalia on 4 September. The devotion to Santa Rosalia is widespread among the large and mainly Hindu Tamil community of Sri Lankan origin settled in Palermo. On 4 September, a tradition of walking barefoot from Palermo up to the Sanctuary of Santa Rosalia high up on Mount Pellegrino
105-584: The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck , who was trapped in the city during the 1624–1625 quarantine, during which time he produced five paintings of Rosalia, now in Madrid , Houston , London , New York and Palermo itself . In 1629 he also produced Saint Rosalia Interceding for the City of Palermo and Coronation of Saint Rosalia to assist Jesuit efforts to spread devotion to her beyond Sicily. In Palermo ,
120-409: The city. The hunter climbed the mountain and found her bones in the cave as described. He did what she had asked in the apparition. After her remains were carried around the city three times, the plague ceased. After this Rosalia was venerated as the patron saint of Palermo, and a sanctuary was built in the cave where her remains were discovered. Her post-1624 iconography is dominated by the work of
135-582: The genus Sigara . Members of the Corixidae are commonly known as lesser water boatmen : the term used in the United Kingdom to distinguish species such as Corixa punctata from Notonecta glauca , or greater water-boatman, an insect of a different family, Notonectidae . Corixidae generally have a long flattened body ranging from 2.5 to 15 mm (0.1–0.6 in) long. Many have extremely fine dark brown or black striations marking
150-428: The plant material, letting the insect suck the liquified food back through its mouthparts and into its digestive tract. However, most species are not strictly herbivorous and can even be completely predatory, like those of the subfamily Cymatiainae . In fact, Corixidae have a broad range of feeding styles: carnivorous , detritivorous , herbivorous and omnivorous . Some species within this family are preyed upon by
165-498: The theme of Italian art and the plague. In March 2020, The New York Times published an article about the Metropolitan Museum of Art's painting of Saint Rosalia by Van Dyck in the context of COVID-19 . Van Dyck also made designs for prints which were engraved by Philips van Mallery for the publication Vita S. Rosaliae Virginis Panormitanae Pestis Patronæ iconibus expressa , which was published by Cornelis Galle
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#1732780533831180-407: The wings. They tend to have four long rear legs and two short front ones. The forelegs are covered with hairs and shaped like oars, hence the name "water boatman". Their four hindmost legs have scoop- or oar-shaped tarsi to aid swimming. They also have a triangular head with short, triangular mouthparts. Corixidae dwell in slow rivers and ponds, as well as some household pools. Unlike their relatives
195-611: Was due to a visit he paid to a pool of water downstream from the cave where St. Rosalia's remains were found, where he developed ideas based on observations of water boatmen . Saint Rosalia was an important subject in Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting, particularly in sacre conversazioni (group pictures of saints flanking the Virgin Mary) by artists such as Riccardo Quartararo , Mario di Laurito , Vincenzo La Barbara , and possibly Antonello da Messina . It
210-506: Was led to the cave by two angels . On the cave wall she wrote "I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of [Monte] delle Rose , and Quisquina, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ." In 1624, a plague beset Palermo. 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. She ordered him to bring her bones to Palermo and have them carried in procession through
225-596: Was the Flemish master Anthony van Dyck (1599–1637), who was caught up in Palermo during the 1624 plague, who produced the most paintings of her. His depictions – a young woman with flowing blonde hair, wearing a Franciscan cowl and reaching down toward the city of Palermo in its peril – became the standard iconography of Rosalia from that time onward. Van Dyck's series of St. Rosalia paintings have been studied by Gauvin Alexander Bailey and Xavier F. Salomon , both of whom curated or co-curated exhibitions devoted to
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