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Catherine of Siena, Saint
Among Catherine’s principal followers were Fra Raimondo delle Vigne, of Capua (d. 1399), her confessor and biographer, afterwards General of the Dominicans, and Stefano di Corrado Maconi (d.
Saint catherine siena biography
1424), who had been one of her secretaries, and became Prior General of the Carthusians. Raimondo’s book, the “Legend”, was finished in 1395. A second life of her, the “Supplement”, was written a few years later by another of her associates, Fra Tommaso Caffarini (d.
1434), who also composed the “Minor Legend”, which was translated into Italian by Stefano Maconi.
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Between 1411 and 1413 the depositions of the surviving witnesses of her life and work were collected at Venice, to form the famous “Process”. Catherine was canonized by Pius II in 1461. The emblems by which she is known in Christian, art are the lily and book, the crown of thorns, or sometimes a heart—referring to the legend of her having changed hear