Case file · Apparition / miracle
Saint Rosalia and the plague of Palermo
During the plague of 1624, Rosalia appeared in a vision to a sick woman and then to a hunter, showing where her bones lay on Monte Pellegrino; the bones were found and carried through Palermo on 9 June 1625 and the plague eased.
1624 CE · 38.17, 13.35 · status: account
The sceptical view
Relics were found and paraded; the end of the epidemic fits its natural course.