Saint Rosalie?

Question

Is there such a saint? What did she do? Where was she born and what was her ethnicity? When was she born? Can anyone give me a link to some info on her, because I can't find a single one.

Answer 1

These 2 were the closest I could find:

Catholic Online - List of Female Saints

Bl. Rosalie Rendu (France)

1786-1856

Jeanne Marie Rendu, entered a religious congregation devoted to the care of the needy, the Daughters of Charity, taking the name Rosalie. During the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, she treated the wounded on both sides of these conflicts, even mounting the barricades to nurse the fallen. On one occasion, she placed herself between the warring parties and shouted to them, “We do not kill here!”

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php...

[Beautified in 2004 by Pope John Paul II]

St. Rosalia (Sicily)

-1160

She left her home and took up her abode in a cave, on the walls of which she wrote these words: "I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ." She remained there entirely hidden from the world.

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php...

Answer 2

I did a quick Google search and a number of sites popped up, many of which are local parishes who have her as their patron saint.  The churches usually have a brief description of her life included on their websites.

As a summary, Saint Rosalie (or Rosalia) lived in the 12th century in Palermo, Italy.  Little is known about her life except that she apparently left an aristocratic family to devote herself to Jesus as a hermitess in a cave on Mt. Pellegrino.  In the summer of 1624, she appeared in a vision to someone (accounts differ as to whom) explaining that she would protect the city of Palermo from a plague then ravaging the city.  The location of her bones were also revealed in the vision and when a procession of them went throughout the city, the plague lifted.  She was declared the patron saint of Palermo.