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Category:Saint Catherine of Siena
From The Work of God's Children
(born in 1347, died in 1380, Memorial on April 29)[1]
- Catherine was born on March 25, 1347 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.[2] She was the youngest in the family and the twenty-fifth child of her father Giacomo di Benincasa and her mother Lapa. In 1375, while she was in Pisa, she received the stigmata on the fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday). Due to her influence, Pope Gregory XI left Avignon and returned to Rome on January 17, 1377, ending the "Avignon Captivity." She died in Rome on April 29, 1380,[3] was found to be incorrupt in 1430,[4] was canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461, and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI on October 4, 1970.[5]
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