Feast day April 29
St. Catherine of Siena
Doctor of the Church · 1347–1380
For those who would speak truth to power for love of Christ.
In their words
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
Life
Dominican tertiary and mystic from Siena who persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return the papacy from Avignon to Rome. She received the stigmata invisibly, authored The Dialogue, and was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970 — one of the first two women so named.
A prayer
From The Dialogue
O eternal God, O eternal Trinity, You are a deep sea in which, the more I seek, the more I find; and the more I find, the more I seek You. Clothe me, clothe me with Yourself, eternal Truth, so that I may run this mortal life in true obedience and in the light of most holy faith.