Feast of St Catherine of Siena, 1 of 4 women Drs of the Church. Still in her 20s she received a divine call to heal the world and the church. She wrote the pope, monarchs, exhorting them to fulfill their duties. In Avignon she rebuked the pope for not returning to Rome.
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After a final vision in which she saw the Church as if a mighty ship placed on her back she collapsed and died soon after at age 33. (Icon by Robert Lentz). “All the way to Heaven is Heaven, because He said ‘I am the Way.’”—(a favorite quote of #DorothyDay)