Saint Catherine of Genoa | |
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| Born | c. 1447 Genoa, Republic of Genoa |
| Died | 15 September 1510 (aged 62–63) Genoa, Republic of Genoa |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Anglican Communion |
| Beatified | 6 April 1675, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement X |
| Canonized | 16 June 1737, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement XII |
| Feast | 15 September[1] |
| Patronage | Italian hospitals[2] |
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Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, 1447 – 15 September 1510) was an Italian Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor[3] and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family,[4] and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501. She died in that city in 1510.
Her fame outside her native city is connected with the publication in 1551 of the book known in English as the Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa.[4]
Catherine and her teaching were the subject of Baron Friedrich von Hügel's classic work The Mystical Element of Religion (1908).[3]
- ^ Administratio Patrimonii Sedis Apostolicae (2001). Martyrologium Romanum. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
- ^ "Katharina von Genua".
- ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Saint Catherine of Genoa
- ^ a b Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), article Catherine, St, of Genoa