Why Saint Rosalia is the patron of Palermo?

Tradition , history and faith are all different perspective through which we can read the story of Saint Rosalia, patron of Palermo. How a girl who excaped from her fate of being wife to a man she didn’t love, became a saint. It’s a story that begins back in the 12th century at the court of Roger II of Sicily, after count Baldovino saved the king’s life.