Catherine's Role Model

• Catherine was born in Siena, as the 23rd child of Jacopo and Lapa Benincasa who were rich dyers
• As a child, she was a great opposition to the rest of her family
• Her model as a child and continued to be was Dominic de Guzmán, founder of the Dominicans, who preached far and wide.
• At an early age she displayed an intense religious sensibility, often causing her to go into a trancelike state
• Her family was displeased with her and attempted to have her married off but she did not allow them
• She soon because just a servant to her parents who tried their best to ignore her spiritual beliefs
• At the time Europe was going through a plague known as the black death
• She lost her twin sister during birth
• She was a very kind and joyful
Finally, she had a vision of Christ, who set a ring on her finger and married her which made her realise how much she had let herself astray
• She force the pope into leaving his residence at Avignon and returning to Rome
• In 1375, according to legend, she received the stigmata, the wounds of Christ. They did not show on her body, however, until after her death. She died in Rome and was buried in the Minerva Church.
• When she was 16 she had a vision of St Dominic and then joined the third order of St Dominic
• She was surrounded in Florence by the chapter of the Dominic’s and was interrogated in
• Her books of literature The dialoge of divine providence and libero Della Davina Tolario as well as her books of prayer which is still read