Feast Day:
September 15
Also known as
Apostle of
Purgatory; Caterinetta
Profile
Daughter of
Giacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, Geonese nobles. Youngest of five
children. In her youth she felt a call to religious life, but on her
father's
death when she was 16, she married Julian Adorno. They were a
childless couple, he was careless and unsuccessful as a husband and
provider, often cruel and
unfaithful, and reduced them to bankruptcy.
After Catherine
converted him, the two lived together celibately the rest of their
lives, working with the
sick and
poor till Julian's death in
1497.
Franciscan
tertiary. Directress in
1490. Caught and survived the
plague in
1493. Spiritual student of Don Cattaneo Marabotto in
1499. Visionary.
Mystic.
Writer.
Born
1447 at
Genoa,
Italy
Died
14 September
1510 at
Genoa,
Italy of natural causes
Canonized
1737 by
Pope
Clement XII
Name Meaning
pure one
Patronage
brides,
childless people,
difficult marriages,
people ridiculed for their piety,
temptations,
victims of adultery,
victims of unfaithfulness,
widows
Readings
If it were
given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his
intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or
fatigue.
Saint Catherine of Genoa
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