St. Catherine de Ricci

  February 13

St. Catherine was born in in 1522. Her baptismal name was Alexandrina, but she took the name of Catherine upon entering religion. From her earliest infancy she manifested a great love of prayer, and in her sixth year, her father placed her in the of Monticelli in Florence, where her aunt, Louisa de Ricci, was a nun. After a brief return home, she entered the of the Dominican at Prat in Tuscany, in her fourteenth ye...


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