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Catherine of Sienna (1347-1380), Dominican
layperson, mystic, and patron saint of Italy. Her famous
Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin represent a magnificent attempt at
describing the complete spiritual journey in the form of a dialogue
between the Almighty Father and the human soul, represented by Catherine.
For years on end, she
ate nothing except the small consecrated wafer known as "the host." Her fearlessness and frankness in
rebuking popes, cardinals, kings and queens was much admired. She is
one of only three women to have been made Doctors of the Church, along
St. Teresa of Avila and
St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
  
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