Rita Lotti-Mancini of Roccaporena (1381–1457) was first wife and mother, then widow, then Augustinian nun at the convent of St. Mary Magdalene in Cascia in Umbria — the same town where the Eucharistic miracle of 1330 occurred. She bore for fifteen years a single bleeding wound on her forehead, received in 1442 in mystical union with the crown of thorns of Christ; she lived alone in a small cell because the wound emitted a stench so strong that the other sisters could not bear to be near her.
She died on May 22, 1457. Her body was found incorrupt at the moment of death — the stench replaced by a sweet fragrance — and has remained so for over five centuries. It is still visible in a glass-fronted reliquary in the Basilica of St. Rita at Cascia, vested in the black Augustinian habit, the forehead wound still visible. Canonised by Leo XIII in 1900, she is invoked across the Catholic world as 'patroness of impossible causes' — alongside St. Jude Thaddeus.