The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

Name: The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
Author: St. Catherine of Siena

St. Catherine of Siena

Algar Thorold's complete English translation (1896) of the Dialogue, dictated by St. Catherine in ecstasy in 1377-78: the soul's conversation with God the Father in four treatises on divine providence, discretion, prayer and obedience. Thorold divides the text into 148 chapters, not the 167 of Fiorilli's Italian edition (see the book Il Dialogo della divina provvidenza, which has the same work), so it is a separate book. Thorold's long introduction on the life and times of the saint is not included.

Source: Chapters I-CXLVIII with their rubrics, the treatise heading under the first chapter of each of the four treatises. Thorold's introduction, preface and contents are not imported. Running heads, page numbers and line-end hyphens were stripped, broken words were rejoined by comparing the text with itself and a dictionary, small-capital chapter openings were normalised and about thirty OCR slips were fixed by hand; some residual OCR errors may remain. The 1907 abridged edition (CCEL) was not used.