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Catherine
was born in Italy in the fifteenth century. She married the
son of a rival family as an act of diplomacy, but he turned
out to be ill-tempered and unfaithful, with an unfortunate fashion
sense. Catherine became very depressed and had a vision in which
Christ appeared and spurted blood from his wounds, covering
the walls of her house. She then experienced a spiritual transformation
and started licking the ground, sleeping with thorns in her
bed and eating wormwood to punish herself for her mortal transgressions.
She became known for her tireless dedication to the sick and
poor. When plague struck and killed her husband, she nursed
his mistress and their illegitimate children back to health.
Catherine spent her later years having visions and writing her
“Treatise on Purgatory,” Her feast day is September
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