ST.CATHERINE OF SIENA

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• birth date : 25 March , 1357
• death : 29 April , 1380 & feast day : april 29
• birth place : Siena, Italy
• death place : Rome
• Patron saint : fire prevention ; bodily illness ; Italy ; firefighters ; sexual temptation ; sickness ; Siena Italy

St.Catherine of Siena born in Siena , Italy. From her earliest childhood , 6 years of age she began seeing visions and practice asceticism ( training the soul to virtuous and holy living .) At the age of seven she consecrated her virginity to Christ. At seventeen she became a Dominican Tertiaries. She had celestial vision & conversation with Christ. She went through a mystical experience better known as " spiritual espousals " with the vision she return to her family. After that she began to attend the poor & especially the sick with repulsive diseases.

During the summer of 1370 she received a vision one of them a mystical death in the vision of hell , purgatory , heaven & heard a command telling her to leave her cell and enter the public life. She got into politics and was sent for the design of a crusade . She learn to write and began a wonderful writer. Her last work which was on her death bed was about the reconciliation of Pope Urban VI.

• 25th child of a wool dyer
• saw guardian Angeles
• died at the age of 33
• she was given a Stigmata

Prayer to Saint Catherine of Siena for Firefighters
Dominican Tertiary and Doctor of the Church, you were full of wisdom, the special gift of God, and you knew how to guide even Pontiffs, as well as how to extinguish fiery passions and restore true peace among people. How inspiring your spiritual writings and how heroic your abstemious life! Fires are today unfortunately all too common - including those caused by criminals. Please protect and encourage firefighters in their heroic efforts to save lives. Amen.

Prayer to Saint Catherine for her gifts
- God of Wisdom you made our sister Catherine burn with divine love in contemplating the Lord's passion and in serving your Church. With the help of her prayers may your people, united in the mystery of Christ, rejoice forever in the revelation of his glory, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.