Life and Achievements

Saint Catherine of Sienna was born on the 25th March, 1347 and died 33 years later on the 29th April, 1380. She was the second youngest of a very large family that belonged to the lower-middle class. Her father, Giacomo di Benincasa, was a dyer and her mother, Lapa, was the daughter or a local poet. She  lived during the Crusades and the Great Schism.

Saint Catherine of Siena was a Doctor of Unity for the Church and a Seraphic Virgin. Her holiness, courage and cooperation with God’s spirit is a prototype which was barely matched in church history.

Although Catherine was not a nun, she definitely was dedicated and belonged to the Dominicans as a papal counselor. Many people, both secular and religious admired her virtue carefully.

She was intelligent, cheerful and intensely prayerful. She worked tirelessly for the poor, the sick and the church.

Catherine had many achievements throughout her life including during the black plague when she worked heroically, caring for, comforting and even curing those effected. But perhaps her greatest achievement of all was when she convinced the Pope to leave Avignon and return to Rome.