Saint Catherine of Siena
(Catholic Tradition)
A story of blazing charity, prophetic courage, and the soul set aflame for Christ.
In the quiet streets of Siena a young laywoman took a radical vow of love: not cloistered in a convent, but living the Gospel in the marketplace, the sickroom, the council chamber, and—most improbably—the papal court. Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), Dominican tertiary, mystic, and Doctor of the Church, became a living bridge between ordinary holiness and apostolic daring: a woman who prayed on her knees and wrote to kings. Born to a working-class family, Catherine was drawn early to Christ’s passion. Her life centers on two great energies: intense contemplative union (the mystical “spouse” language of The Dialogue) and fierce, practical love for the poor and the sick. When the papacy sat in Avignon and the Church was rent by politics, Catherine refused quiet piety. She took road and letter alike—pleading with popes, rebuking princes, nursing plague victims—until Pope Gregory XI returned the See to Rome. Her voice was equal parts prayer and prophecy. Catherine’s influence is most at home in the Western Church—she was declared a Doctor of the Church for the depth and pastoral power of her theology—but echoes of her witness reach beyond those borders. When your pendant shows her with the book of prayers and a lily, it speaks her twofold vocation: the life of intimate union (the book / The Dialogue) and the purity of service (the lily). If she’s portrayed in a simple habit or as a lay Dominican, that image honors her vow to live holiness in ordinary streets. Clasped to your chest it becomes a small, steady homily to Pray boldly, love the Church, but love it honestly, and Sanctify the everyday.
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Small: 21mm X 16mm X 2mm*
Large: 27mm X 21mm X 2mm*
(*Depth varies with Icon detail but is always at least 2 mm.)
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