Saint Catherine of Palma
- Also known as
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Catherine Tomas
Catherine Thomas
Catalina Thomas
Catalina Tomas
- Memorial
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1 April
formerly 5 April
27 July and 28 July in Valldemossa, Spain
- Profile
- Orphan who lived an unhappy childhood in the home of her paternal uncle.
Felt a call to the religious life at age 15, but her confessor convinced her to wait a little.
Domestic servant in Palma where she learned to read and write.
Joined the Canonesses of Saint Augustine at Saint Mary Magdalen convent at Palma, Spain.
Subjected to many strange phenomena and mystical experiences including visits from angels, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Catherine.
Had the gifts of visions and prophecy.
Assaulted spiritually and physically by dark powers, she sometimes went into ecstatic trances for days at a time; her wounds from this abuse were treated by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.
During her last years she was almost continually in ecstasy.
Foretold the date of her death.
- Born
- 1 May 1533 at Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain
- Died
- 5 April 1574 at Saint Mary Magdalen convent, Palma, Mallorca, Spain of natural causes
- Beatified
- 1792
- Canonized
- 1930 by Pope Pius XI
- Patronage
- Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain
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