Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa born
03/25/1347 AD born
To Lapa Piagenti, the daughter of a local poet, and Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons
Lapa was about forty years old when she gave premature birth to twin daughters Catherine and Giovanna. She had already borne 22 children, but half of them had died. Giovanna was handed over to a wet-nurse and died soon after.
Catherine was nursed by her mother and developed into a healthy child. She was two years old when Lapa had her 25th child, another daughter named Giovanna.
As a child Catherine was so merry that the family gave her the pet name of "Euphrosyne", which is Greek for "joy"
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