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March 25, 1347 in Siena, Italy

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April 29, 1380 in Rome, Italy

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Catherine spent most of her life in Italy helping the sick and poor. She also spent a lot of her life traveling around Europe speaking about church reforming to the church and helping people find their complete love and devotion to God.

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April 29th

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All of Catherine of Siena's influential work helped her be nominated as a Doctor of the Church, the Patron Saint of Italy and Europe, as well as being the Patron Saint against fire, illness, miscarriages, sexual temptations, people ridiculed because of their faith, and nurses.

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Catherine had a vision which told her to render her focuses to heal the poor, sick, and wounded. From there she immediately took action going to homes and hospitals and helping anyone she could, which quickly gained her followers wanting to do the same.

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St. Catherine became involved in politics working to keep city states loyal to the pope as well as starting a crusade towards the Holy Land. She had a goal to create peace in the church and throughout Italy by assisting in reorganizing the church.

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She started dictating letters to scribes illustrating her work and prayers allowing other people to have access to them. In total she created 380 letters and 26 prayers showing the inner self and her connection to God. In 1377, Catherine also started a monastery for women in Italy.

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Catherine is a lovely example of the core belief that God is Good. In herself she worked to serve people and illustrated how God makes us all beautifully and wonderfully made. But she also valued how others were made goodness of God in how she served others who may not have been seen as worthy of love.

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She valued religion as her connection and relationship to God. Catherine lived out the ideals and actions of kindness, courage, love, and compassion. These values allowed Catherine to have a relationship with God through the people and nature around her. But also having God move through her work, words, and behavior.