Catherine Benincasa, better known as Catherine of Sienna was a Catholic saint. The Holy See recognized as co-patron of Europe and Itala and Doctor of the Church.
Daughter number 25, a total of 25 children (Her sister Giovanna, the daughter number 24, lived a few months), Jacob Benincasa, dyer, and Lapa Piacenti, daughter of a local poet.
She belonged to a family of lower-middle class basically composed of notaries, who between a revolution and another ruled the Republic of Siena.
His siblings nicknamed her Euphrosyne. Catherine had a formal education has always showed a predilection for solitude and prayer and, still a child, she was devoted to mortification and vowed chastity. At age 12, her parents began planning unnoticed marriage, but Catherine reacted by cutting her hair and shutting with a black veil over her head. In order to persuade her, her parents forced her to perform strenuous housework, however, Catalina's locked itself even more convinced of her religious vocation. Only an unusual event, a dove perched on the head of Catherine, as she prayed, convinced Jacob sincere vocation of his daughter.
At 18, she took the habit of the Third Order of the Dominicans. She was subjected to long periods of sackcloth and fasting, fed only during the Eucharist.
Surely, in the carnival of 1366, she lived what he described in his letters as "a mystical marriage" with Jesus, in the Basilica of St. Sunday of Siena, having different visions like Christ on his throne with St. Peter and St. Paul, after which she started to get sick more (remember that she practiced long fasts and, therefore, was anorexic) and demonstrate, yet again, her love for the poor. That same year his father died, and in Siena, a coup was launched.
In 1370, she received a series of visions of hell, purgatory and heaven, after which she heard a voice ordering him out of retirement and into public life. She began corresponding with men and women from all walks of life, corresponding with the main authorities of the territories of Italy, praying for peace between the republics of Italy and the Pope back to Rome from Avignon.
During the Plague, in the year 1374, Catalina succor the sick, without showing tired in no time. A year later, in Pisa, she received the invisible stigmata, so she felt the pain but not the wounds were seen externally.
Two years later, she was sent to Avignon as ambassador of the Republic of Florence, in order to reconcile the Papal States and the Pope. The impression made Catherine to Pope, it meant returning to Rome a year later.
In Rome, she affirmed her loyalty to the Holy See. She responded to the leading questions of some scholars and bishops, confusing her interrogators. She reconciled to the Florentines with Pope Urban VI, the successor of Pope Gregory XI, hanging, the July 18, 1378, an olive branch in the Papal Palace, as a symbol of peace.
After this, she retired to the deep loneliness, but there cleared the Schism. She supported Pope Urban VI, who summoned her to Rome, where she lived until his death on 29 April 1380, at the age of 33 years as a result of anorexia. She was buried in the Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome, her skull was buried in the Basilica of St. Sunday of Sienna and her foot is buried in Venice.
In 1370, she received a series of visions of hell, purgatory and heaven, after which she heard a voice ordering him out of retirement and into public life. She began corresponding with men and women from all walks of life, corresponding with the main authorities of the territories of Italy, praying for peace between the republics of Italy and the Pope back to Rome from Avignon.
During the Plague, in the year 1374, Catalina succor the sick, without showing tired in no time. A year later, in Pisa, she received the invisible stigmata, so she felt the pain but not the wounds were seen externally.
Two years later, she was sent to Avignon as ambassador of the Republic of Florence, in order to reconcile the Papal States and the Pope. The impression made Catherine to Pope, it meant returning to Rome a year later.
In Rome, she affirmed her loyalty to the Holy See. She responded to the leading questions of some scholars and bishops, confusing her interrogators. She reconciled to the Florentines with Pope Urban VI, the successor of Pope Gregory XI, hanging, the July 18, 1378, an olive branch in the Papal Palace, as a symbol of peace.
After this, she retired to the deep loneliness, but there cleared the Schism. She supported Pope Urban VI, who summoned her to Rome, where she lived until his death on 29 April 1380, at the age of 33 years as a result of anorexia. She was buried in the Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome, her skull was buried in the Basilica of St. Sunday of Sienna and her foot is buried in Venice.
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