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St. Catherine of Siena was born in 1347, and is the patron saint of fire prevention. She supposedly received visions from early childhood, dreaming at the age of 6 that Jesus came to her and blessed her. She died in 1380 and was canonized in 1461.References:
by fressy on January 19th, 2011
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by SW, M.D. on August 8th, 2010
She was also the 24th of 24 children born to an impoverished Italian laborer and his wife. The nun that taught my first grade class had a reliquary that contained a fragment of one of her bones. At the time, it was fascinating and creepy.
At the time I visited her shrine in Italy, I thought she could have been a mystic, but she could have also been a lonely, neglected child, or both. She also could have been having hallucinations--hallmarks of major mental illness, say schizophrenia. From information obtained at her shrine, I thought she fit in the lonely soul, hallucinating category.
She also had some disturbing self-abuse rituals, as many saints did--'mortifying the flesh to bring one closer to God.'
Was she in communication with the Almighty? I don't know.
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as all i KNOW she loves Jesus, she left everything for jesus...
by fressy on January 30th, 2011