Catherine of Siena

American  

noun

1. Saint, 1347–80, Italian ascetic and mystic.

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Catherine of Siena British  

noun

1. Saint. 1347–80, Italian mystic and ascetic; patron saint of the Dominican order. Feast day: April 29

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Catherine of Siena

Amy attended St. Catherine of Siena, the school associated with her family’s parish, and then, like her grandmother, mother, aunts and sisters, went to high school at St. Mary’s Dominican, an all-girls Catholic school.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2020

When St. Catherine of Siena died in Rome, her hometown of Siena wanted her remains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2019

He cites a 1376 letter from the mystic Catherine of Siena to a disciple, in which she presciently warns of schisms within the Catholic Church and invokes the Eucharist as a symbol of unity.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019

Perhaps he attended a seminar on the theology and “holy fasts” of Catherine of Siena.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2016

During the fourteenth century St. Catherine of Siena spent much of her time in the hospital, and it was her work here that gave her the glorious prestige that came so unlooked for.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh