St. Catherine Of Siena

Early life

• Birth: March 25, 1347 in Siena, Italy
• 6 years old she began seeing guardian angels
• 7 years old she decided to devote herself to God
• 16 years old became Dominican tertiary
• Death: at 33 years old, in 1430

6 years old

• Catherine was walking home with her brother when she saw a vision of Christ seated with Apostle Peter, Paul and John
• She then vowed to give herself to God

Service to her family

• Catherine began using her family as representations of the followers of Christ
• father= God
• mother= mary
• brothers= apostles
• began serving them which allowed for spiritual growth

DOMINICAN TERTIARIES

• joined the "mantellate"
• Roman Catholic third order affiliated with the Dominican order

How she showed her faith

• worked to bring the papacy of Gregory xi back to Rome
• establish peace among the Italian cities

Summer of 1370

• Catherine received a number of divine mysteries
• visions of heaven, hell, and purgatory
• she wrote letters and shared these visions with others, who soon followed her

the "dialogue", or "Treatise of divine providence"
collection of 400 letters
series of prayers

Final accomplishments

• from her death bed she reconciled Pope urban vi
• 1380

Inspiring

• listen and look for signs
• do everything for my faith
• spread faith in creative ways