Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa

Name: Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa
Author: St. Catherine of Genoa

St. Catherine of Genoa

The life of St. Catherine Fieschi Adorno of Genoa (1447-1510), the mystic of pure love and of the divine fire that purifies, as written down by her confessor Cattaneo Marabotto and her disciple Ettore Vernazza and published as the Vita mirabile e dottrina santa: her early years and unwanted marriage, her conversion in 1473, her years of service at the Pammatone hospital, her interior purification, her sufferings and her death. In forty-two chapters, with Isaac Hecker’s introduction. This is the 1874 English translation; the Italian original (Vita mirabile, Padua 1743) exists in a long-s OCR only and is not yet imported.

Source: Hecker’s introduction and the forty-two chapters of the Life with their rubrics. The CCEL text lacks the heading of chapter XXXIV (How God gave the saint a confessor in her extreme need); it is restored here from the scan’s table of contents and the chapter’s start. The Spiritual Dialogue and the Treatise on Purgatory of the same volume are separate books.