St Catherine Research Paper

Saint Catherine was born in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347 during the outbreak of the plague. She was the twenty-fifth child born to her mother, although almost half of her brothers and sisters died during their childhood. Bonaventura, Catherine’s sister, died at the age of sixteen, leaving her husband as a widower. Her parents thought that this would be a great opportunity for Catherine to marry, so they suggested that he marry her as a replacement. Catherine was appalled by this idea and ended up fasting and cut her hair short to mar her appearance. Her extreme devotion to family made Catherine’s parents allow her to live as she pleased. Catherine treated her family with great respect, as Mary and Joseph would represent her parents, and her siblings as the apostles. …show more content…
This allowed her to stay involved in a religious society while living at home. Other Dominican sisters taught Catherine how to read and write. She began to develop a habit of giving things away without asking permission such as her family’s food and clothes. Catherine would give these things to people i need and put up with the punishments that she got from her family for doing so. At the age of twenty-one, something in Catherine’s life changed. She claimed to have been given a ring made of Jesus’s skin, along with the stigmata. The only catch was that she was the only one who could see them. She began to work to help the sick and poor, and her passion grew so much that she started to travel to help people in different areas of the