Saint Catherine of Genoa

[Saint Catherine of Genoa]
Also known as
Apostle of Purgatory
Caterinetta
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15 September
formerly 22 March
Profile
Daughter of Giacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, Geonese nobles. Youngest of five children. In her youth she felt a call to religious life, but on her father's death when she was 16, she married Julian Adorno. They were a childless couple, he was careless and unsuccessful as a husband and provider, often cruel and unfaithful, and reduced them to bankruptcy.

After Catherine converted him, the two lived together chastely the rest of their lives, working with the sick and poor till Julian's death in 1497. Franciscan tertiary. Directress in 1490. Caught and survived the plague in 1493. Spiritual student of Don Cattaneo Marabotto in 1499. Visionary. Mystic. Writer.
Born
1447 at Genoa, Italy
Died
14 September 1510 at Genoa, Italy of natural causes
Beatified
6 April 1675 by Pope Clement X
Canonized
16 June 1737 by Pope Clement XII
Name Meaning
pure one
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
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Transit of the Seraphic Virgin, by Ser Barduccio di Piero Canigiani
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Works
Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa
Spiritual Dialogue
Treatise of Discretion
Treatise of Divine Providence
Treatise on Obedience
Treatise of Prayer
Treatise on Purgatory
Writings of Saint Catherine [sjs download - 654 kb]
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Readings
If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

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