St. Catherine of Siena was an Italian mystic and a Dominican tertiary who lived in Italy in the 1300s. She was known for her holiness, asceticism, and spiritual visions and was said to have received stigmata (the wounds of Christ). She was also a reformer and a political activist, and she was influential in religious and political affairs of the church.
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