![]() One anonymous chronicler in Siena at the time wrote: “And no bells tolled, and nobody wept no matter what his loss because almost everyone expected death…. There would be several successive waves of the disease during Catherine’s lifetime. ![]() It is said that four-fifths of the population of Siena died from the plague the following year. The Black Death, or bubonic plague-one of the deadliest pandemics in human history-reached Sicily via Genoese trading ships from the Black Sea the year Catherine was born. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Dominican Mantelatta-or penitential woman-who lived during an earlier crisis, can offer us some guidance and hope.Ĭatherine (whose feast is celebrated on April 29th) lived in worse times than our own because it was not only the Church that seemed to be collapsing, but larger society and even the world itself. ![]() In the midst of such trying times, how can Catholics justify remaining in the Church? The words and deeds of St. In the wake of so many clerical sex abuse scandals, to many people the Catholic Church appears hypocritical and bankrupt morally and spiritually. ![]()
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