St Catherine dies
04/29/1380 AD died
Catherine dies at age thirty-three, having eight days earlier suffered a massive stroke which paralyzed her from the waist down. Her last words were, "Father, into Your Hands I commend my soul and my spirit."
For many years she had accustomed herself to a rigorous abstinence and extreme fasting that appeared unhealthy in the eyes of the clergy and her own sisterhood.
Her confessor, Raymond, ordered her to eat properly. But Catherine claimed that she was unable to, describing her inability to eat as an infermità (illness).
From the beginning of 1380, Catherine could neither eat nor swallow water, and on February 26 she lost the use of her legs.
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Catherine of Siena (Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa) Dominican mystic, activi...
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