She found time every day to attend Mass and to recite many prayers as well as to carry out her household duties. She use to say a servant is not holy if she is not busy; lazy people of our position is fake holiness.
Saint Zita was given a free reign over her working schedule and busied herself with visits to the sick and those in prison. Word spread rapidly in Lucca of her good deeds and the heavenly visions that appeared to her. Upon her death in 1278 the people acclaimed her as a saint.
She is the patroness of domestic workers. Her feastday is April 27.
Saint Zita's older sister became a Cistercian nun and her uncle Graziano was a hermit whom the local people regarded as a saint. At the age of twelve Saint Zita became a housekeeper in the house of a rich weaver in Lucca, Italy and stayed with that family for the last forty-eight years of her life.