Patron saint of Palermo

Usage examples of rosalia.

The night was pitch-black, and Rosalia was quiet, except for the approaching vehicle.

No more gringos were going to leave Rosalia alive, if the NRF rebels had their way.

Rosalia set up a first-aid station in the office of the former Elite Cinema and the local Defence Committee invited me to work there as a nurse, Rosalia having told them that I had some experience in nursing sick people.

Yesterday I spent the night at home instead of at the hospital, and early in the morning I went in search of Rosalia, since there was no one in the flat.

I found myself trudging back to the house, forgetting that I had given Rosalia the key to the flat.

We sat through the first alert, though Rosalia phoned and in the name of the Self-Defence Group ordered us to go down.

When I rang up, it was he, and not Rosalia, who answered the telephone.

Poor Rosalia prepared the sandwiches with trembling hands and ate them with a religious expression.

Okamoto decided that they would continue to Santa Rosalia, two hundred kilometres further south, and catch the ferry across the Gulf of California to Guaymas.

Not the elderly Severina, who died a while ago, but his new wife Rosalia, who has thick black plaits that swing down her back.

She would like to ask Rosalia whether uncle husband is transformed into a wolf who tears her to pieces and then runs off.

When Rosalia is in a bad mood they seem to rise up and spit like dancing serpents.

Now he lay on the floor with his head split as cleanly as a melon, and his wife Rosalia cowered in a corner of the room clutching her two-year-old daughter, Mary.

He took a carrozza one gloomy day and rode all the way to Monte Pelligrino to visit the fantastic tomb of Santa Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo, depicted in a famous statue, which Tom had seen pictures of in Rome, in one of those states of frozen ecstasy that are given other names by psychiatrists.

Next September, you could run a special connected to the Santa Rosalia festival.