Oil Painting of Saint Catherine, on sale Firefighter Gift, Religious Art, Patron Saint Confirmation Gift, Dominican Order, Catholic Painting

Oil Painting on Birch wood panel

6x6 Oil painting on Birch Panel with painted edges. Ready for Hanging. Can be framed or hung as is. Birch Wood panel has 3/4 inch cradle.

Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P. was a Tertiary (a lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order, and a scholastic philosopher and theologian. Catherine Benincasa was born in the 14th century into a prosperous urban family, her parents being Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth-dyer, and Lapa Piagenti, a daughter of a local poet. She was the 23rd child out of 25 (Catherine's twin sister, the 24th, died at birth).

In about 1366, St Catherine experienced what she described in her letters as a "Mystical Marriage" with Jesus, after which she began to tend the sick and serve the poor. In 1370, she received a series of visions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, after which she heard a command to leave her withdrawn life and enter the public life of the world.

Patron: Against fire; bodily ills; Europe; fire prevention; firefighters; illness; Italy; miscarriages; nurses; nursing services; people ridiculed for their piety; sexual temptation; sick people; sickness; Siena, Italy; temptations.

Symbols: Cross; heart; lily; ring; stigmata on sale. Passionitstnuns.org

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