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Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), known as Catherine of Siena (Italian: Caterina da Siena), was an Italian mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy.
Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa, conosciuta come Caterina da Siena, è stata una religiosa, teologa, filosofa e mistica italiana. È stata proclamata santa da papa Pio II nel 1461 e dottore della Chiesa da papa Paolo VI nel 1970. È stata dichiarata patrona di Roma nel 1866 da papa Pio IX, patrona d'Italia insieme a san Francesco d ...
Jun 6, 2024 · St. Catherine of Siena (born March 25, 1347, Siena, Tuscany [Italy]—died April 29, 1380, Rome; canonized 1461; feast day April 29) was a Dominican tertiary, mystic, and one of the patron saints of Italy. She was declared a doctor of the church in 1970 and a patron saint of Europe in 1999.
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- St. Catherine of Siena was a Dominican tertiary and mystic who lived in Italy in the 1300s. She was known for her holiness, asceticism, and spiritu...
- St. Catherine of Siena is one of only four women who were named doctor of the church, meaning that her writings, including the mystical The Dialogu...
- St. Catherine of Siena died at age 33 in Rome, and most of her body is buried there at Santa Maria sopra Minerva basilica. Her mummified head is in...
Fast Facts: Catherine of Siena. Known For: Patron saint of Italy (with Francis of Assisi); credited with persuading the Pope to return the papacy from Avignon to Rome; one of two women named Doctors of the Church in 1970. Also Known As: Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa. Born: March 25, 1347 in Siena, Italy.
Santa Caterina da Siena. An extraordinary woman who had the courage to tell the truth to popes and kings, she was able to have an enormous influence on politics in an age of strife, wars and plague, when women did not even learn to read. The Patron saint of Siena, and co-patron of Rome, Italy and Europe, St. Catherine is at the forefront among ...
Catherine spent the greater part of 1377 in effecting a wonderful spiritual revival in the country districts subject to the Republic of Siena, and it was at this time that she miraculously learned to write, though she still seems to have chiefly relied upon her secretaries for her correspondence.
May 3, 2021 · Catherine of Siena (b. 1347–d. 1380) was an author, spiritual leader, religious reformer, and one of the more remarkable public figures of the Middle Ages.
