Pope Aeneas Piecolomini Cannonizes Catherine of Siena by Pintuiccihio 1502 - 08

Saint Catherine Receiving the Stigmata by Giovanni di Paolo 1460 - 61

Marks of the wounds suffered by Christ in his crucifixion - in hands (or wrists) and feet by nails, and side by the piercing of a lance. Those who receive these marks are called stigmatists; approximately 300 have been recorded, 90% of them women. The Church has never issued any infallible declaration concerning this phenomenon.

Saint Catherine Receives her Habit by Giovanni di Paolo 1460 - 61

Saint Catherine of Sienna Exchanging Her Heart with Christ " by Giovanni di Paolo, part of a three part altar panel, hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Fra Bartolommeo did a beautiful painting of a pensive St. Catherine of Sienna with a lily

Mystic Marraige of Saint Catherine by Giovanni del Biondo

Mystic Marriage of St Catherine by Filippino Lippi

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Siena, with Eight Saints. 1511. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
By Bartolimmmeo.

Mystic marriage to Jesus by Michelino da Besozza.

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena by Giovanni di Paolo 1460 - 61

Saint Catherine Siena Dictating Dialogue

Catherine's book Dialogue contains four treatises -- her testament of faith to the spiritual world. She wrote, "No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing."

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