St. Catherine of Siena, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Virgin, Doctor of the Church
Born
Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa (1347-03-25)25 March 1347 Siena, Republic of Siena
Died
29 April 1380(1380-04-29) (aged 33) Rome, Papal States
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Anglican Communion[1]
Lutheranism[2]
Beatified
29 December 1460
Canonized
29 June 1461 by Pope Pius II
Major shrine
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome and the Sanctuary of Saint Catherine, Siena
Feast
29 April; 30 April (Roman Calendar, 1628–1969); 4 October (in Italy)
Attributes
habit of a Dominican tertiary, ring, lily, cherubim, crown of thorns, stigmata, crucifix, book, heart, skull, dove, rose, miniature church, miniature ship bearing papal coat of arms
Patronage
against fire; bodily ills; people ridiculed for their piety; nurses; sick people; miscarriages; Europe; Italy; Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.; Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines; Samal, Bataan, Philippines
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. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church due to her extensive theological authorship. She is also considered to have influenced Italian literature.
Born and raised in Siena, Catherine wanted from an early age to devote herself to God, against the will of her parents. She joined the "mantellates", a group of pious women, primarily widows, informally devoted to Dominican spirituality; later these types of urban pious groups would be formalized as the Third Order of the Dominicans, but not until after Catherine's death.[3] Her influence with Pope Gregory XI played a role in his 1376 decision to leave Avignon for Rome. The Pope then sent Catherine to negotiate peace with the Florentine Republic. After Gregory XI's death (March 1378) and the conclusion of peace (July 1378), she returned to Siena. She dictated to secretaries her set of spiritual treatises, The Dialogue of Divine Providence. The Great Schism of the West led Catherine of Siena to go to Rome with the pope. She sent numerous letters to princes and cardinals to promote obedience to Pope Urban VI and to defend what she calls the "vessel of the Church". She died on 29 April 1380, exhausted by her rigorous fasting. Urban VI celebrated her funeral and burial in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.
Devotion around Catherine of Siena developed rapidly after her death. Pope Pius II canonized her in 1461; she was declared a patron saint of Rome in 1866 by Pope Pius IX, and of Italy (together with Francis of Assisi) in 1939 by Pope Pius XII.[4][5][6][7][8] She was the second woman to be declared a Doctor of the Church, on 4 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI – only days after Teresa of Ávila. In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed her a Patron Saint of Europe.
Catherine of Siena is one of the outstanding figures of medieval Catholicism due to the strong influence she had in the history of the papacy and her extensive authorship.[9] She was behind the return of the Pope from Avignon to Rome, and then carried out many missions entrusted to her by the pope, something quite rare for a woman in the Middle Ages. Her Dialogue, hundreds of letters, and dozens of prayers also give her a prominent place in the history of Italian literature.
^"Holy Men and Holy Women" (PDF). Churchofengland.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 September 2012.
^"Notable Lutheran Saints". Resurrectionpeople.org. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^Longo, F. Thomas (2006). "Cloistering Catherine: Religious Identity in Raymond of Capua's Legenda Maior of Catherine of Siena". Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History. 3: 25–69.
^Haegen, Anne Mueller von der; Strasser, Ruth F. (2013). "St. Catherine of Siena: Mystic, Politician, and Saint". Art & Architecture: Tuscany. Potsdam: H.F.Ullmann Publishing. p. 334. ISBN 978-3-8480-0321-1.
^(in Italian) Pope Pius XII, Pontifical Brief, 18 June 1939.
^(in Italian)Proclamation to Doctor of the Church, Homily, 4 October 1970.
^Proclamation of the Co-Patronesses of Europe, Apostolic Letter, 1 October 1999. Archived 20 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine
^Liturgical Feast of St. Bridget, Homily, 13 November 1999.
^"Saint Catherine of Siena | Biography, Facts, Miracles, & Patron Saint of | Britannica". 15 July 2023.
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