![]() Dominic, which allowed her to associate with a religious society while living at home. Catherine once explained that she regarded her father as a representation of Jesus and her mother as Our Lady, and her brothers as the apostles, which helped her to serve them with humility.ĭespite Catherine's religious nature, she did not choose to enter a convent and instead she joined the Third Order of St. Her fasting and her devotion to her family, convinced them to relent and allow her to live as she pleased. Her parents attempted to resist this move, to avoid marriage, but they were unsuccessful. She began fasting and cut her hair short to mar her appearance. Catherine's parents proposed that he marry Catherine as a replacement, but Catherine opposed this. Her father was a cloth dyer.Īt the age of 16, Catherine's sister, Bonaventura, died, leaving her husband as a widower. ![]() Catherine herself was a twin, but her sister did not survive infancy. She was the 25th child born to her mother, although half of her brothers and sisters did not survive childhood. Catherine of Siena was born during the outbreak of the plague in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. ![]()
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