Saint catherine bologna biography
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St Catherine of Bologna
St Catherine of Bologna
Pope Benedict XVI
Authority is to serve others
At the gods General Audience of the year , held on Wednesday, 29 December, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, the Holy Father commented on St Catherine of Bologna, a Poor Clare, an abbess in the 15th century and "a woman of great wisdom and culture". The following fryst vatten a translation of the Pope's Catechesis, which was given in Italian.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In a recent Catechesis inom spoke of St Catherine of Siena. Today inom would like to present to you another less well known Saint who has the same name: St Catherine of Bologna, a very erudite yet very humble woman. She was dedicated to bön but was always ready to serve; generous in sacrifice but full of joy in welcoming Christ with the Cross.
Catherine was born in Bologna on 8 September , the eldest child of Benvenuta Mammolini and John de' Vigri, a rich and cultured patrician of Ferrara, a doctor in lag and a public lector in Padu
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Saint Catherine of Bologna
St. Catherine of Bologna was born to an aristocratic family in Italy in When still a young girl, she was sent to court to serve as a lady-in-waiting, and there, she received an education in writing, Latin, painting, singing, and dancing.
Despite her comfortable surroundings, Catherine felt called to religious life, and while still a young teenager, she entered the convent of Corpus Domini in Ferrera and became a Franciscan Tertiary. She would then join other young women in becoming a member of the Poor Clares, a contemplative order founded by St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi. She was known to do some of the humblest of tasks at the convent, including serving as the laundress and the caretaker of animals.
Later in life, in , she and 15 other sisters were sent to establish a Poor Clare monastery in Bologna, where she served as abbess.
Throughout her life, Catherine continued to express her faith through her art. She painted pictures of Jesus
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One of the more unusual places to visit in Bologna is the chapel containing the mummy of Saint Catherine of Bologna, who is also known as Saint Catherine de’ Vigri. Catherine or Caterina in Italian, was the Abbess of the community of Poor Clare nuns at the Corpus Domini convent in Bologna at the time of her death in She was buried in the convent graveyard, but exhumed 18 days later after the nuns noticed a sweet smell coming from the tomb.
Her skin was still white, but it has since darkened from centuries of exposure to lamps and candles. From at least to the present she has occupied a chapel at the church of Corpus Domini.
My post gives some of the details of the life of this mystic, author, artist, musician and abbess but to read about how to visit Bologna’s female patron Saint, skip to Visiting Santa Caterina.
Catherine&#;s early life
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