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Learn about the life, works, and legacy of Catherine of Siena, an Italian mystic, laywoman, and Doctor of the Church. She influenced the papacy, wrote spiritual treatises, and was a patron saint of Europe.
Aug 6, 2024 · St. Catherine of Siena was a Dominican tertiary and mystic who gained a wide reputation for her holiness and her severe asceticism. Catherine’s writings include about 380 letters, 26 prayers, and the 4 treatises of her famous work, The Dialogue. She is the patron saint of Italy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 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...
2 days ago · Learn about the saint, mystic and doctor of the Church who played a role in ending the Avignon papacy and fostering peace in Europe. Discover her spirituality, her mystical marriage with Jesus, her gift of tears and her teaching on the Eucharist.
- Early Life and Becoming A Dominican
- Service as Vocation
- Public Recognition
- The Pope at Avignon
- The Great Schism
- Holy Fasting and Death
- Legacy, Feminism, and Art
- Resources and Further Reading
Catherine of Siena was born into a large family. She was born a twin, the youngest of 23 children. Her father was a wealthy dye-maker. Many of her male relatives were public officials or went into the priesthood. From age six or seven, Catherine had religious visions. She practiced self-deprivation, especially abstaining from food. She took a vow o...
At the end of the three years of isolation, she believed she had a divine command to go out into the world and serve as a means of saving souls and working on her salvation. Around 1367, she experienced a mystical marriage to Christ, in which Mary presided along with other saints, and she received a ring—which she said remained on her finger all h...
Her visions and trances attracted a following among the religious and secular, and her advisors urged her to become active in the public and political world. Individuals and political figures began consulting her to mediate disputes and give spiritual advice. Catherine never learned to write and she had no formal education, but she learned to read ...
Her religious writing and good works (and perhaps her well-connected family or her tutor Raymond of Capua) brought her to the attention of Pope Gregory XI, still at Avignon. She traveled there, had private audiences with the Pope, argued with him to leave Avignon and return to Rome and fulfill "God's will and mine." She also preached to public audi...
Gregory died in 1378 and Urban VI was elected the next Pope. However, soon after the election, a group of French cardinals claimed that fear of Italian mobs had influenced their vote and, along with some other cardinals, they elected a different Pope, Clement VII. Urban excommunicated those cardinals and selected new ones to fill their places. Clem...
In 1380, in part to expiate the great sin she saw in this conflict, Catherine gave up all food and water. Already weak from years of extreme fasting, she fell gravely ill. Though she ended the fast, she died at age 33. In Raymond of Capua's 1398 hagiography of Catherine, he noted this was the age when Mary Magdalene, one of her key role models, die...
Pius II canonized Catherine of Siena in 1461. Her"The Dialogue"survives and has been widely translated and read. Extant are 350 letters that she dictated. In 1939, she was named as a patron saint of Italy, and in 1970, she was recognized as a Doctor of the Church, meaning her writings are approved teachings within the church. Dorothy Daycredits rea...
Armstrong, Karen. Visions of God: Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings. Bantam, 1994.Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California, 2010.Curtayne, Alice. Saint Catherine of Siena. Sheed and Ward, 1935.da Siena, Saint Caterina. The Dialogue. Ed. & trans. by Suzanne Noffke, Paulist Press, 1980.St. Catherine wrote to pope Gregory XI., at Rome, strongly exhorting him to contribute by all means possible to the general peace of Italy. His holiness commissioned her to go to Florence, still divided and obstinate in its disobedience.
At the heart of Catherine's teaching was the image of a bleeding Christ, the Redeemer—ablaze with fiery charity, eager sacrifice, and unqualified forgiveness.
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2 days ago · Learn about the life, mysticism, and legacy of St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century Dominican tertiary and peacemaker who influenced the Pope and ended the Avignon exile. She is the co-patron of Italy and of Europe.
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