Facts about St Catherine of Siena
Born- March 25, 1347
Died-April 29, 1380
She began seeing visions when she was only six years old. They are said to have been visions of angels and of the people they protected.
When she was 16 she took the habit of the Dominican Sisters.
In doing so she didnt have to live in the convent, she lived in her fathers shop where she united a life of active charity with the prayer of a contemplative Saint.
She was armed with the pope authority and and was accompanied by three confessors as she traveled throughout Italy and started winning hardened souls to God.
She was a scholastic philospher and theologian.
She worked to bring back pope Gregory back to Rome from his displacement in France.
St. Catherine was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1970.
She died at age 33 after having a stroke.
Pope Pius II canonized St. Catherine in 1461.
Her feast day was proclaimed April 29th, the day of her death.
She became a patron saint on May 5, 1940.
St. Catherine is known as the Patron Saint of sickness, fire prevention, nurses, and miscarriages.
