Catherine of Siena
Americannoun
noun
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Accused of flouting male authority by demanding that bishops and priests reform, Catherine of Siena starved herself, becoming frighteningly and androgynously “other.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 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
And of St. Catherine of Siena, whom many had sought to kill, after she had borne so many labours for them, going personally to Avignon to plead their cause before the Pope.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
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