Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times 15" Francisco died just a year

Francisco died just a year and a half after the visitations of Our Lady ceased

faithfulness and others

A pair of small golden finches perched on a branch of cherry blossoms

in a spirit of filial obedience

Thomas chose the life of a mendicant friar

Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times 15" Francisco died just a yearThe Holy Father, forced to leave Rome, battled rebel forces, killing thousands, splitting Christendom, and spawninganti Popes who joined the rebel alliance, brazenly challenging the authority of God's Vicar on earth. Into this corrupt, brutal, turbulent world was born Catherine, the daughter of a modest Siennese cloth dyer. Now famed as the great St. Catherine of Siena who changed the course of the Church and of European history, this child was early