St. Catherine of Siena St. Catherine of Siena was born March 25, 1347 in Siena, Italy. She was born during the sudden start of the plague. She had 24 brothers and sisters, but only half of them survived. Catherine was a strong follower of God, she always gave clothing and food from her own family to the people who were in need, she was a kind and caring hearted person. My saint did not undergo a major conversion from being poor Christian life to great virtue. Some virtue that my saint had was that she helped the poor, visited hospitals, and she also loved politics, and always followed the pope and stayed loyal to him. The services and works that my saint is known for serving the poor and sick, she also traveled make changes to some churches and help confess and love God always. The symbols that represent St. …show more content…
Catherine are the Dominican nuns habit , a crown of thorns, and a miniature church. These symbols represent her because her first religious society that she joined was one of St. Dominic, a crown of thorns represent her because in one of her dream Jesus showed he two crown and golden crown and a crown of thorns, and finally the miniature church represents her because she traveled around the world to reform churches and help people find love in God. St.
Catherine of Siena died on April 29, 1380 and this date is her feast date. When she was 33 years old she became very ill, she became very ill because she she fasted very regularly eating nothing for 1 week. Her confessor told her to eat, but she refused because it was difficult for her to swallow anything and digest it. In January her illness got worse and she couldn't eat or drink, due to this she had a stroke and perished. she died at 33 years of age. My saint if the patroness of fire, illness, the United states, Italy, miscarriages, and nurses. St. Catherine of Siena’s devotion was to live a life close to God. Her parent wanted Catherine to marry, but she refused, her fasting and devotion to her family let her parents let her decide what she wanted to do in her life. At age 16 she joined the religious society of St. Dominic. At st. Dominic Catherine learned how to read. When she was 21 years of age she had an experience that she referred to as “mystical marriage to Christ. Cathrine was given a ring that was invisible, but only she could see it. Also in one of her visions she was told to live a public life and help the poor and sick all she
could. I choose St. Catherine of Siena because of her loving and caring heart. Also she would help the poor and the sick almost everyday taking things away from her family and giving it to others who needed it more, spreading the love of Jesus and God everywhere she went, and she would help the Churches. I want to imitate St. Catherine’s purity, loving/caring heart, her determination, and helping others in need. St. Catherine of Siena is a saint that I have always been connected to in some sort of way, so i would love to accomplish the things she accomplished in her beautiful life myself. Finally St. Catherine of siena always had a beautiful relationship with God. Her loving, giving, caring heart always helped people who were in need. she joined a religious community when she was 16 and there the other nuns taught her how to read. She is know and called the mother of all churches. Finally in my eyes St. Catherine of Siena is one of the most beautiful saints ever born.
Catherine of Siena and Joan of Arc were small lapses in this model, since they did not come to power by wealth or economic status. Although they share many similarities, they have a few differences. Joan and Catherine stood out among millions of women and challenged the system of the time. Catherine of Siena was said to have received visions of Jesus, telling her to be kind to others and help the poor and sick. She was incredibly religious and did everything possible to help people at every turn. She also played a major role in moving the papacy from Avignon back to Rome. This made her very influential to others, and she gained a following. Joan and Catherine were incredibly similar in the ways that they gained fame through their visions, however, they differed in the motives that they had for their actions. Catherine went on to help many people in need, and was eventually made a saint of the Catholic Church. Her actions of kindness and grace ranked her in religious
Saint Christina of Markyate’s story provides more than the religious experiences of a hermit, it presents twelfth-century life in, mostly, the Huntington area of England in a very detailed manner. Baptized as Theodora, Christina of Markyate’s path of religious devotion is claimed to have begun in her early teen years with a vow of chastity (35). This vow was only known to one other person, a close friend named Sueno, until her parents attempted to arrange a marriage for her. Being described as attractive and intelligent, as well as coming from a wealthy family, this was not uncommon for women in Christina’s lifetime. Upon declining the first suitor, a bishop, her hardships begin and, at times, seem as though they were both unlikely to end and
Frances Cabrini was born in July 15, 1850 to Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardi, Italy. She was one of eleven children born to the Cabrini family and one of the only four children that survived past adolescence. She was born two months premature and was small and weak as a child. These factors, as well as the strong faith of her parents, would have an impact on the rest of her life, mission, and works. Agostino Cabrini, her father, often read Propagation of the Faith to her and the rest of the family. The stories were all about the missions in China and from a young age, Frances desired to become a missionary. By the age of eighteen, Frances knew that she wanted to be a nun, however; her weak health stood in the way. She could not join the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So instead, in 1863, Frances enrolled as a boarding student at the Normal School in Arluno with the intentions of becoming a schoolteacher. The school was directed by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. Frances lived at the school for five years, residing in the convent with the nuns. Frances was elated to live with the nuns and to share a faith-centered life with them. She graduated from the Normal School in 1868 with a degree in teaching.
St. Teresa was born in Avila, Spain on March 28, 1515. She was baptized as Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada. At a young age she would often give gifts to the poor and pray. Her father and her mother were both Catholics which inspired her to do the same. Her father was a very strict man a demanded her to never lie, while her mother told her to lie and comforted her. This created a ton of turmoil in the family and made St. Teresa end up loving her mother more due to her father’s severe strictness. St. Teresa felt that everything she was doing was wrong. During her teens her mother passed away leaving her to deal with her father by herself and she was relieved of some of the pain by turning to the Virgin Mary for comfort. In her late teen years
To use the name of a Saint generally evokes images of holy men and women of the Catholic church, dressed in flowing robes and surrounded by an oil-painted aura. There are patron saints-those with a sort of specialized divinity-of bakers and bellmakers, orphans and pawnbrokers, soldiers and snake bites, soldiers and writers. Each is a Catholic who lived a life deemed particularly holy and was named, postmortem, by the Pope to sainthood. This construct, I find, is something of an empty set of ideas. The process of canonization is one notorious for its pecuniary nature and tendencies toward corruption. What kind of hope, then, can one possibly be offered by a long-dead person so chosen? Perhaps the kind of sainthood I can accept is much more a secular one. This is, I think, the order of sainthood of author Alice Walker's invention.
Teresa Sánchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada lived in Avila, Spain where she was born in 1515 and lived during the Reformation until her death at age 67. She was canonized in 1622, forty years after her death. St. Teresa's grandmother was forced to be converted from a Jew into a Christian during the Inquisition. Without her grandmother’s conversion St. Teresa would never have become a Christian saint. Her parents were Godly people and showed tremendous integrity. They always said their prayers and made sure their twelve children did also. Sadly, at the age of twelve, St. Teresa's mother died giving birth which created a fear in St. Teresa of getting married. St. Teresa had a special relationship with one of her nine brothers named Rodrigo. St. Teresa once said, “When I read about certain women saints who endured martyrdom for the sake of God, I concluded that death was a small price to pay for the utter joy they were given in return when they were whisked away to heaven” (Starr, 2007, p.6). Rodrigo taught St. Teresa all about chivalry and they spent many hours reading about the lives of saints, never thinking St. Teresa would accomplish just that. As a girl, St. Teresa strived to be worthy of God, as did her siblings whom she loved. Instead of acting like she was a princess with the other girls, her and her brother Rodri...
Catherine of Siena was born in Italy in 1347 at a time when political and religious changes were affecting the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Dedicating her life to the Holy Spirit from a very young age, Catherine pursued a life of purity and simplicity that served as a background to her great literary work, The Dialogue of the Divine Providence . Her work focuses on the importance of prayer and its transcendent power in human life.
who had eaten her very own children and her husband, but was miraculously cured with a drink
St. Teresa of Avila was born on December 6, 1515 in Gotarrendura, Ávila, Crown of Castile (today- Spain). Two years after the birth of Teresa, Luther had started the Protestant Reformation. After all this change, Teresa showed the way from outer disturbance to inner peace. When Teresa was at the age of 39, she started having vivid experiences of God's presence from within her.
Saint Catherine was born in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was one of twenty-five children, and she had a twin but she died when she was just an infant. Her father, Giacomo di Benincasa, was a cloth dyer and her mother, Lapa Piagenti, was the daughter of a poet. Catherine grew up being a very happy child. It is reported that when she was around 6, she she had a vision of God. When she was 7, she vowed to give her whole life to God.
Her hardships in life are what made her the person she was, like many of the saints, and she understood that suffering was just part of life. Europe in Catherine’s days were no walk in the park, the country was being destroyed by the plague known as the Black Death. Saint Catherine was always in line waiting to help the next person in need. In the book written by Katharina Wilson, she explains one of the moments where Catherine helped a priest who had caught the Black Death while working in a hospital. Catherine ran into the priests’ room and said “get up father, there is work to be done. Have something to eat”. The priest almost immediately, without hesitation, stood from his death bed and noticed he was no longer ill. Our Saint Catherine was not perfect though, she did have her times where she did not feel the presence of God anymore and felt alone. She would ask God “O Lord, where wert Thou when my heart was so sorely vexed with foul and hateful temptations?”. After she would ask this she would hear a voice from God telling her “Daughter, I was in thy heart, fortifying thee by grace”. Catherine said that she found strength in these words and that she would go out and do even more for the people just as God would want her to. She continued to help the sick, she continued to be compassionate and continued to pray hard. She
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St Clare founded the Poor Clares. She had a very wealthy life as her parents were wealthy. She was brought up in a palace with her sister, St Agnes. She had a very full education or as much as women were taught in those days (learnt to write, read and needle work) but luxury did not appeal to her and she wished to devote her life to a life without what she had where God would be closer to her.
St. Catherine of Alexandria is one of the most powerful and amazing Saints. She was born in Alexandria and came from a wealthy family and was highly educated. Contrary to Maxentius the Kings beliefs she was a devout Christian. She converted to Christianity after having a vision of God. She was extremely influential
Her father was a brilliant man! He had two major impacts on mathematics before he was 23. He was still a genius even when he was ill. However, everyone saw him as crazy. Catherine inherited her father’s mathematical brilliance, so because she got this trait she was afraid she would also inherit her father's madness. For this reason, she decided to try to just play it safe and not show the gift she was blessed with. Catherine was not crazy like her father though. Instead of being crazy, she was a math mastermind! I think she really knew how smart she was, but in order for her to accept how gifted she really is she needed proof, as everyone does, to see that she could be successful. Everyone needs that reassurance that what they are doing is right, just like what Catherine needed to see. Once, she saw that her proof she wrote was shown true, she started to believe in herself. I try to