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Article Excerpt
I FIRST MET CATERINA BENINCASA, BETTER known as St. Catherine of Siena, during a trip to her hometown in Italy. I was a college student trying to figure out how to become
Catholic and still have a good relationship with my non-Christian family. I had spent that happy summer program in Florence studying Renaissance history, discovering the beauty of religious art, and falling in love with God.
I had read one of Catherine's letters for a history class the year before, so I sort of knew who she was--a 14th-century lay Dominican mystic who had advised popes on church reform.
As I later discovered, she was born around 1347, right before the Black Death epidemic devastated Europe. Like most girls, she was uneducated and expected to accept an arranged marriage. Instead she became a third-order Dominican who lived...
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