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	Santa Rosalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Santa Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily.
		According to legend Rosalia was born in 1130 of a Norman noble family that descended from Charlemagne.
		In 1624 a horrible plague haunted Palermo, and during this hardship Santa Rosalia appeared first to a sick woman, then to a hunter to whom she indicated where her remains were to be found.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Rosalia (275 words)

	Città di Palermo - The Festino - The Patron Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But when Rosalia heard of the proposed marriage she ran away, leaving her mother, her uncle and all the residents of the Royal Palace (or Norman Palace, as it was also called) in a state of great dismay.
		The cult of Santa Rosalia is connected to a particular event that occurred in Palermo during an episode of plague.
		Santa Rosalia appeared to him in a vision and in dialect instructed him to inform the Archbishop of Palermo, Cardinal Giannettino Doria, that some bones recently discovered in the cave were hers and that if they were carried in solemn procession through the streets of the city, the plague would disappear.
	www.comune.palermo.it /English/festino_2003/the_patron_saint.htm (518 words)

	31 May 99
		Santa Rosalía is a commercial harbor and not primarily a haven for pleasure boats.
		Santa Rosalía is one of the last places in the world where working sailing ships called for cargo.
		Santa Rosalía is the capitol of the "Município de Mulegé" (County Seat).
	www.redact.org /tsingtao/1998-1999/31_May_99/31_may_99.html (2421 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Rosalia
		From her youth, Rosalia knew she was called to dedicate her life to God.
		In 1625, during a period of plague, she appeared in a vision to a hunter near her cave.
		Three days later the plague ended, intercession to Rosalia was credited with saving the city, and she was proclaimed its patroness.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintr13.htm (160 words)

	MexOnline.com Santa Rosalia City Guide - Baja California, Mexico
		From dusk until dawn, this French-inspired town was built, replacing the disordered array of adobe houses with beautiful wooden houses built on blocks and streets that were meticulously outlined and adapted to the landscape.
		In 1897, the Santa Barbara church was erected.
		Santa RosalÍa survives today, utilizing marine resources and tourism that is generated from the town’s past exploitation of gypsum and manganese.
	www.mexonline.com /santarosalia.htm (585 words)

	Isola delle Femmine Connection-Santa Rosalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalia is the adopted patron saint of Monterey’s Sicilian fisherman.
		Each year, in the fall, the statue of Santa Rosalia is removed from its pedestal in the old San Carlos Church and paraded to the water front for the blessing of the fleet.
		Santa Rosalia became the patron saint of the City of Palermo.
	giamona.com /santarosalia.htm (530 words)

	Squiz Floats - Log - Santa Rosalia to Mazatlan, Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalia (Oct 9, 2002 - 27° 20.41' N and 112° 15.91' W) After leaving the Midriff Islands, we sailed south to central Baja California and stopped for four days in Santa Rosalia.
		At Santa Rosalia we fell into our typical marina pattern and took care of some boat work, get water and fuel, and let Katherine try to put together another telephone interview for short-term work.
		Santa Rosalia was originally a French-run mining town created in the late nineteenth century.
	www.squizfloats.com /log20021009.html (1127 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		Santa Rosalia, Baja California, had its beginnings when a rancher named Jose Rosas discovered curious round green pellets in its vicinity in 1868.
		All of a sudden the land explored by the Jesuits in the 18th Century, abandoned by its native inhabitants due to the death toll they suffered from contagious diseases contracted from other races and from the impact of another culture, was put in upheaval by the new interest that united it with Europe.
		But time inexorably goes on, and Santa Rosalía, with its fl port, its scarred hills, phantom smelter and static locomotive no. 7, is in itself a monument to a colonial saga and to the spirit through which it lives on.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/89winter/history.htm (4583 words)

	Baja Mexico: Baja Expo - Santa Rosalia
		Santa Rosalia's harbor is now used as a ferry port, taking Mexicans and Baja travelers to Guaymas on Mexico's mainland.
		Santa Rosalia is unique in that it is one of the few towns located on the Sea of Cortez that has no tourists.
		The citizens who live in Santa Rosalia today are a beautiful mix of the many races of immigrants who set up camp here over one hundred years ago from many parts of the world.
	www.bajaexpo.com /cities/rosalia.htm (1044 words)

	SANTA ROSALIA BAJA Fishing RV Parks Camping Diving Hotels El Boleo Church Baja California Sur, Mexico
		Instead of returning empty, copper-transport ships brought lumber from the Pacific Northwest to Santa Rosalia, and, as the town grew, the French filled the arroyo and mesas on either side with wooden buildings to house workers, company officials, and Mexican soldiers.
		Copper ore from the Mexican mainland is smelted in Santa Rosalia on occasion, but the mines closed in 1985.
		Santa Rosalia's Famous metal church, designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (builder of the Eiffel Tower) It was constructed from prefabricated galvanized iron in 1897.
	www.bajaquest.com /santarosalia (419 words)

	SANTA ROSALIA / Baja Events & Activities / Baja California Mexico
		Santa Rosalia, at least on every website and travel guide I could get my hands on, is known as the city of wood with a large French architectural influence as the French actually built the city or at least it's civil buildings back in the 1800's.
		Santa Rosalia offers an ever-expanding list of activities from water sports, cave hunting, kayaking, snorkeling, fishing, mountain biking, hiking, shopping and just good old fashion relaxation.
		Santa Rosalia, a quiet gentle town with the Sea of Cortez as it's front yard and a people that take their siesta time seriously, it doesn't get a whole lot better then that.
	www.bajaevents.com /santarosalia.html (305 words)

	Santa Rosalia Fishing, April 9, 2005, Mike Kanzler
		It was a week of unusual fishing at Santa Rosalia, and some surprises of the bajo.
		Santa Rosalia weather was fishable for most of the week, but with a few days of high winds that kept some off the water.
		Water temperatures in our Santa Rosalia fishing area are a bit up to about 66-67 degrees and with good visibility of about 30 feet.
	mexfish.com /sros/sros2005/sros050411a/sros050411a.htm (472 words)

	Welcome to Baja Life's Santa Rosalía!
		Continuing 45 miles south of San Ignacio, Santa Rosalía is an isolated town located on the Sea of Cortés that possesses its own unique style of French architecture.
		In exchange, the company was obliged to build a town, including a port and public buildings, generate employment for Mexican workers and establish a maritime route between Santa Rosalía and Guaymas.
		For the tourist, Santa Rosalía offers comfortable lodging, fine restaurants, RV Parks, marina access, a domestic airport, bus depot and a ferry terminal with direct service to and from Guaymas, Sonora.
	www.bajalife.com /santarosalia (189 words)

	Cruise the Sea of Cortez - Santa Rosalia
		Santa Rosalia, also known as the City of Wood (Ciudad De Madera), is about 19 Miles north of Punta Chivato.
		Finally, on the 100th anniversary of Santa Rosalia, the mines were closed permanently.
		Today Santa Rosalia's economy is based in gypsum (there is a mine on San Marcos Island), manganese, fishing, as well as tourism, although it is rumored that the government is going to resume copper mining.
	www.cruisecortez.com /santarosalia.htm (794 words)

	Santa Rosalia Travel Information. Photos, Stories and Diaries about Santa Rosalia , Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		anta Rosalia is an ancient mining town situated 61 km from Mulege by the federal highway 1 in the State of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
		Santa Rosalia is famous because of the singular beauty of its landscapes.
		One of its main attractions you can visit is the Santa Rosalia Church, which was constructed by engineer Gustavo Eiffel who also built the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris.
	www.worldsurface.com /browse/location.asp?locationid=2849 (521 words)

	James Córdova Arts - Santa Rosalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalía de Palermo (Saint Rosalie of Palermo)
		The patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, Santa Rosalí was said to have saved the city from the plague many years after her death.
		She was reputedly a young girl from a good family and is depicted in a green, gray or brown robe and holds a palm and crucifix crucifix.
	jamescordovaarts.com /1998/santa_rosalia.html (67 words)

	Cruise the Sea of Cortez - Mulege
		The town itself is approximately 1½ miles up the Rio Santa Rosalia, but the river is not navigable for sailboats.
		There is also good anchorage on northern side of the entrance to Rio Santa Rosalia, but the seas tend to be choppy, and there is no protection from the winds.
		The Mission Santa Rosalia de Mulege was founded in 1705 by Father Juan Basulda, a Jesuit priest.
	www.cruisecortez.com /mulege.htm (685 words)

	Santa Rosalia
		Santa Rosalia (day six) A little of France in Mexico.
		At dawn we approached the anchorage of Santa Rosalia and the tenders began to take passengers ashore.
		Santa Rosalia is a mining town with a French flavor.
	americahurrah.com /Cruises/Ryndam/santarosalia.htm (214 words)

	The Santa Rosalia to Guaymas Ferry
		Driving up to the ferry dock in Santa Rosalia, a small mining town half way up the Sea of Cortez on the Baja Peninsula, Dorothy asked “where’s the ferry?” The ferry, “Santa Rosalia,” was right in front of us, though the size was such that she could be forgiven for thinking it something else.
		Driving a 28 foot Class C motor home meant that the cost of the diesel alone would match the $500 dollar price of the ferry ticket for the RV, not to mention that the Baja highway north would mean backtracking on territory that had already been extensively explored on the trip south.
		The Santa Rosalia is big enough to carry 14 cars (clearance is available for RV and Trucks) and about 140 foot passengers.
	www.ontheroadin.com /santarosaliaferry.htm (1000 words)

	Hotel, Motel, RV Park & Tourist Guide of St. Rosalia, Baja Sur, Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalia shows off its French architecture with beautiful buildings, witnesses of the difficult history of a town which refused to die.
		Thus, the town of Santa Rosalia was built with its wooden houses and its streets in regular blocks, unlike other towns that grew in a less planned fashion.
		It was the eve of the Santa Rosalia 100th anniversary when the mining company turned off its ovens for the last time.
	members.aol.com /mulegebaja/baja/st-rosal.htm (813 words)

	Story of Santa Rosalia of Santo Stefano Quisquina, Sicily - Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalia, clearly holds a special place in the hearts of many Sicilians, who have affectionately nicknamed her La Santuzza, the little saint.
		Rosalia was the daughter of Duke Sinibaldo, Lord of the Quisquina and the Roses, who was a cousin of King William II of Sicily.
		Like Saint Francis of Assisi, Rosalia turned her back on a life of ease and chose to devote herself to prayer and solitude.
	www.ferlita.com /ssq/story.htm (293 words)

	Santa Rosalia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Santa Rosalia is the patron (A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization) saint of (The capital of Sicily; located in northwestern Sicily; an important port for 3000 years) Palermo, (The Italian region on the island of Sicily) Sicily.
		According to legend Rosalia was born in 1130 of a Norman noble family that descended from (King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)) Charlemagne.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/santa_rosalia.htm (287 words)

	Penol de Santa Rosalia, Jalisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Classic period site of Peñol de Santa Rosalia is located atop a spur in the hills along the western edge of the Tequila valleys.
		Unlike other examples of this type of site, however, Santa Rosalia is a large and significant site in its own right, and hence poses a problem to the overall pattern.
		It is located on a relatively small pass cutting across the mountains from one pocket of the Tequila valleys to another.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~cbeekman/research/rosalia.html (114 words)

	Santa Rosalia, BCS to Merida, Yuc
		We began our 2 day wait for the ferry by heading into the town of Santa Rosalia to see what was to be seen.
		Santa Rosalia is perhaps the most uncharacteristic Baja California town we've ever seen.
		Rosalia to Guaymas, busses to Merida, Rt 80 to Izamal, north-east through Temax, Dslim Gonzolas, to Dslim de Bravo, coastal route to Progresso
	www.outthereliving.com /worldbike/Mexico/wbike035.html (6401 words)

	Santa Rosalia Las Casitas Hotel in Santa Rosalia BCS Mexico Welcomes YOU.
		Santa Rosalia Casitas com is located in Santa Rosalia BCS The town of Santa Rosalia is in Mexico 600 miles south of the border.
		Santa Rosalia Las Casitas Hotel in Santa Rosalia BCS Mexico Welcomes YOU.
		There are many interesting local sights including the Church of Santa Rosalia designed by Eifel known also for the Eifel tower in Paris, France.
	www.santarosaliacasitas.com (262 words)

	Saint Peter Martyr Parish, Santa Rosalia Festival, Pittsburg, California
		Devotion to Santa Rosalia was one of those traditions.
		Rosalia was born in the twelfth century in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
		She showed him the cave overlooking the bay where she had died and promised to protect him and the rest of the city’s residents.
	palmgroup.net /SantaRosaliaFestival (429 words)

	Baja California Travel Resource Guide: Santa Rosalia
		The old mining building still stand in disrepair, and it's possible the local authorities are working on making them into a tourist "attraction," which could possibly be a great idea with significant local impact.
		Most travelers, except for those catching the ferry to Guaymas out of here, tend to drive right by Santa Rosalía without thinking twice about it.
		This exact church was used as a prototype by Eiffel for France to use in their tropical colonies worldwide, and was displayed at the 1889 World Fair in Paris.
	www.escapist.com /baja/rosalia.htm (823 words)

	Hutchinson: Homage to Santa Rosalia
		Of this skeleton nothing is certainly known save that it is that of Santa Rosalia, a saint of whom little is reliably reported save that she seems to have lived in the 12th century, that her skeleton was found in this cave, and that she has been the chief patroness of Palermo ever since.
		Other limestone caverns on Monte Pellegrino had yielded bones of extinct pleistocene Equus, and on the walls of one of the rock shelters at the bottom of the hill there are beautiful Gravettian engravings.
		But perhaps Santa Rosalia would find at this point that we are speculating too freely, so for the moment, while under her patronage, I will say no more.
	oz.plymouth.edu /~lts/ecology/santarosalia.html (5726 words)

	Santa Rosalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Santa Rosalia, a steel-hulled screw freighter built in 1911 by William Hampton and Company, Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland, was acquired by the Navy at New Orleans on 20 May 1918 under United States Shipping Board (USSB) charter from the United States Steel Products Co.; and commissioned the same day.
		Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, the ship sailed for Hampton Roads on 1 June where she loaded general Army supplies.
		On 11 November, while Santa Rosalia was unloading her cargo there, the armistice was signed, ending the fighting.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s5/santa_rosalia.htm (288 words)

	Virtual Guidebook to Baja California Sur - Santa Rosalia
		A locomotive and the old mining company office, now the museum, in Santa Rosalia.
		Downtown Santa Rosalia, the old French mining town.
		Next to the old smelter on the waterfront in Santa Rosalia.
	www.virtualguidebooks.com /Baja/BajaSur/SantaRosalia/SantaRosalia_FSTOC.html (61 words)

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