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Catherine's father was a dyer and mother a poet, and she was born second to last in a family of 22. From early on, she was animated by visions a spiritual exercises to pursue complete holiness and turned her bedroom into a hermitage for three years. She radiated joy, compassion and intelligence, and became a sought-after voice in the chaotic world of Italian politics and Church diplomacy. She was a spiritual director to Pope Gregory XI, and was summoned to Rome by his successor, where, for the rest of her life, she worked toward the healing of the Great Schism.
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Against fire, bodily ills, diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, Europe, illness, Italy, miscarriages, people ridiculed for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, sickness, nurses
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"No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing." St. Catherine's Dialogue
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