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Another important work written after Catherine's death was Libellus de Supplemento (Little Supplement Book), written between 1412 and 1418 by Tommaso d'Antonio Nacci da Siena (commonly called Thomas of Siena, or Tommaso Caffarini); the work is an expansion of Raymond's Legenda Major making heavy use of the notes of Catherine's first confessor ...
Catherine of Siena. Anorexia mirabilis, also known as holy anorexia or inedia prodigiosa or colloquially as fasting girls, [1] [2] [3] is an eating disorder, similar to that of anorexia nervosa, [1] [2] that was common in, but not restricted to, the Middle Ages in Europe, largely affecting Catholic nuns and religious women.
Jesus appears to Catherine as a Poor Beggar; Catherine drinks the blood of Redemption from the wounded chest of Jesus; Catherine before the Pope in Avignon; Decapitation of Niccolò di Tuldo [2] The oratory also has canvases depicting events of the Gospels, including the Birth of the Virgin, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, and Death of the Virgin.
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.
Legenda maior sanctae Catharinae Senensis, 1477 La vita di Santa Caterina da Siena (Legenda maior), 1707. Raymond of Capua, (ca. 1303 – 5 October 1399) was a leading member of the Dominican Order and served as its Master General from 1380 until his death.
Barna da Siena, c. 1340. Although Saint Catherine of Alexandria was supposed to have lived in the third and fourth centuries, the story of her vision appears first to be found in literature after 1337, over a thousand years after the traditional dating of her death, and ten years before Catherine of Siena was born. [3]
Savina Petrilli was born on 29 August 1851 in Siena, the second daughter of Celso Petrilli and his wife Matilde Venturini; her elder sister was Emilia. [2] In 1861, at the age of ten, Savina read an account of the life of Catherine of Siena that instilled in her a strong devotion to Catherine.
Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova TOSD (Russian: Анна Ивановна Абрикосова; 23 January 1882 – 23 July 1936), later known as Mother Catherine of Siena (Russian: Екатери́на Сие́нская, Ekaterína Siénskaya), was a Russian Greek Catholic religious sister and literary translator, who died after more than a decade of solitary confinement as a prisoner of conscience ...