Saint Catherine of Genoa - March 22 breski1 formerly 22 March Profile Daughter of Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, Geonese nobles; she was related to Pope Innocent V and Pope Adrian V, and her …More
Saint Catherine of Genoa - March 22
breski1 formerly 22 March Profile Daughter of Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, Geonese nobles; she was related to Pope Innocent V and Pope Adrian V, and her father became viceroy of Naples, Italy. Youngest of five children. A pious and prayerful girl, she early felt a call to religious life, tried to enter a convent at age 13, was turned away because of her youth. At 16 she entered into an arranged marriage with a young Genoese nobleman, Giuliano Adorno. They were a childless couple, he was careless and unsuccessful as a husband and provider, often cruel, violent and unfaithful, and reduced them to bankruptcy. Catherine became indifferent to her faith, and fell into a depression.
In 1473, while going to Confession in a convent in Genoa, Catherine was struck down by a vision, the revelation of God‘s love and her own sinfulness, and fell into a religious ecstasy; her interior state, and her contact with the truth she had received in the …More
breski1 formerly 22 March Profile Daughter of Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, Geonese nobles; she was related to Pope Innocent V and Pope Adrian V, and her father became viceroy of Naples, Italy. Youngest of five children. A pious and prayerful girl, she early felt a call to religious life, tried to enter a convent at age 13, was turned away because of her youth. At 16 she entered into an arranged marriage with a young Genoese nobleman, Giuliano Adorno. They were a childless couple, he was careless and unsuccessful as a husband and provider, often cruel, violent and unfaithful, and reduced them to bankruptcy. Catherine became indifferent to her faith, and fell into a depression.
In 1473, while going to Confession in a convent in Genoa, Catherine was struck down by a vision, the revelation of God‘s love and her own sinfulness, and fell into a religious ecstasy; her interior state, and her contact with the truth she had received in the …More
