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Gender Feminine
Usage Italian
Pronounced Pron. CHEE-vee-tah  [key]

Meaning & History

Means "city, town", taken from the Italian title of the Virgin Mary Madonna della Civita, which refers to a sacred image of the Virgin discovered on Mount Civita by a shepherd whose deaf-muteness was miraculously cured by it. Madonna della Civita is the patron of Itri, Lazio, where the painting is housed in a sanctuary.

Feast day: 21 July
Added 7/4/2011 by bananarama
Edited 12/17/2011 by SeaHorse15