Catherine of Siena

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Catherine of Si·en·a

 (sē-ĕn′ə, syĕ′nä), Saint 1347-1380.
Italian religious leader who mediated a peace between the Florentines and Pope Urban VI in 1378.
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Catherine of Siena

n
(Biography) Saint. 1347–80, Italian mystic and ascetic; patron saint of the Dominican order. Feast day: April 29
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Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in West Dundee announces new staff appointments upon the retirement of Deborah Schmalen of Sleepy Hollow, who has been a part of its Religious Education office for the past 19 years and serving the past six years as director of Religious Education at the parish.
Catherine of Siena (Santa Catalina), will hold commemorative masses on Monday in celebration of the feast day of the well-loved Italian saint.
The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Catherine of Siena. Our Toyota Sienna minivan has an extra "n," and on our busiest days I could be known as Annemarie of Sienna.
Subsequent chapters are devoted to the work of Petrarch, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena. The three have in common the desire to see the papacy reestablished in Rome.
They are the eagle's flight: Dante's Paradiso VI and the Monarchia; Marsilius of Padua and the question of legitimacy; individual freedom in William of Ockham's Breviloquium; Petrarch, Cola de Riezo, and the Battle of Rome; the prophetic widow: Birgitta of Sweden and the Revelaciones; and Catherine of Siena and the mystical body of the church.
Evening Reception into St Catherine of Siena RC Church, School Lane, Didsbury M20 6HS on Sunday 7th January 2018 at 5.00pm.
Catherine of Siena School in the Beaumont, Texas, diocese.
It was only when female saints such as Catherine of Siena and Birgitta of Sweden gained popular followings, and thanks to the efforts of the fifteenth-century preacher John of Capistrano and Clarissan nuns such as Battista Alfani, that St Clare returned to prominence.
The book is anything but an "introduction." It draws on insights from the rich heritage of Christian Scripture and the spiritual tradition, especially that of Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena. This vantage point is not surprising since M.'s earlier scholarship has been devoted to the spirituality of Catherine.
"Yes" I replied, "You're a descendant of Saint Catherine of Siena!" He smiled, nodded and answered, "Yes, you're right!" It's a small world!
Catherine of Siena describes to her confessor Raymond of Capua how she converted and then accompanied an Italian to his execution.
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