Feast of St. Catherine de Ricci

 

St. Catherine de Ricci settled in the city of Prato, whose Cathedral is pictured above. The cathedral was built not long after her death and is the home of some stunning frescoes.


Here's what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say about St. Catherine de Ricci:

"She is chiefly known to the world for her highly mystical and miraculous life, and especially as the subject of a marvellous, but fully and most carefully authenticated ecstasy, into which she was rapt every week, from Thursday at noon till 4 p.m. on Friday, for several years. In this state she went through all the stages of Our Lord's Passion, actually realizing, and showing forth to others with wonderful vividness, all that His Blessed Mother suffered in witnessing it."