Catherine of Bologna
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| Saint Catherine of Bologna | |
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| Born | 8 September 1413, Bologna |
| Died | 9 March 1463 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholicism |
| Beatified | 1703 |
| Canonized | 1712 |
| Feast | 9 March |
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Saint Catherine of Bologna (8 September 1413–9 March 1463) was was an aristocratic Bolognese woman raised in the court of Bologna. She was the author of Treatise on the Seven Spiritual Weapons.[1] She was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712. Her feast day is March 9.
She joined the Benedictine convent in Ferrara in the late 1420s. She returned to Bologna in 1456 when she became the Mother Superior of a new convent that was established in association with the church of Corpus Domini. She was attributed with having visions and performing miracles. She was sanctified in 1703. She is the patron saint of art instititions.
Some of her art survives including a depiction of St. Ursula from 1456 now in the Galleria Academic in Venice. Some historians have called her style naive. That these work of Caterina dei Vigri remain extant might be due to their status as relics of a saint.
[edit] References
- ^ St. Catherine of Bologna - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- Chadwick, Whitney, Women, Art, and Society, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990
- Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976
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