The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa
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Read by Ann Boulais
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501. She died in that city in 1510.
In 1551, 41 years after her death, a book about her life and teaching was published, entitled Libro de la vita mirabile et dottrina santa de la Beata Caterinetta de Genoa. This is the source of her "Dialogues on the Soul and the Body" and her "Treatise on Purgatory", which are often printed separately. Her authorship of these has been denied, and it used to be thought that another mystic, the Augustinian canoness Battistina Vernazza, who lived in a monastery in Genoa from 1510 till her death in 1587 had edited the two works, a suggestion discredited by recent scholarship, which attributes a large part of both works to St Catherine, though they received their final literary form only after her death.
The Life and Doctrine is a biographical sketch of St. Catherine, filled with her thoughts and experiences with God. In this, there are many examples of how we too can reach perfection in our relationship with God.
(Introduction by Wikipedia and Ann Boulais) (4 hr 2 min)
Chapters
00 - Introduction | 14:40 | Read by Ann Boulais |
01 - Chapters 1 and 2 | 12:56 | Read by Ann Boulais |
02 - Chapters 3 and 4 | 8:58 | Read by Ann Boulais |
03 - Chapters 5 and 6 | 8:01 | Read by Ann Boulais |
04 - Chapters 7 and 8 | 6:57 | Read by Ann Boulais |
05 - Chapters 9 and 10 | 9:11 | Read by Ann Boulais |
06 - Chapters 11 and 12 | 12:01 | Read by Ann Boulais |
07 - Chapters 13 and 14 | 17:32 | Read by Ann Boulais |
08 - Chapters 15 and 16 | 16:26 | Read by Ann Boulais |
09 - Chapters 17 and 18 | 11:44 | Read by Ann Boulais |
10 - Chapters 19 amd 20 | 13:43 | Read by Ann Boulais |
11 - Chapters 21 and 22 | 10:16 | Read by Ann Boulais |
12 - Chapters 23 and 24 | 13:11 | Read by Ann Boulais |
13 - Chapters 25 and 26 | 5:10 | Read by Ann Boulais |
14 - Chapters 27 and 28 | 6:12 | Read by Ann Boulais |
15 - Chapters 29 and 30 | 5:29 | Read by Ann Boulais |
16 - Chapters 31 and 32 | 10:24 | Read by Ann Boulais |
17 - Chapters 33 and 34 | 11:41 | Read by Ann Boulais |
18 - Chapters 35 and 36 | 12:13 | Read by Ann Boulais |
19 - Chapters 37 and 38 | 10:29 | Read by Ann Boulais |
20 - Chapters 39 and 40 | 16:21 | Read by Ann Boulais |
21 - Chapters 41 and 42 | 9:10 | Read by Ann Boulais |
Reviews
great perspective on women in the church
philsomething
interesting and very positive characterization of where the better parts of the catholic church were a couple generations ahead of the reformation.
very informative book
A LibriVox Listener
Thank you Ann Boulais for your superb reading of this book.
Robert Maher
excellent read by ann. st.catherine be venerated now and forever...
Instrumentum
Thank you, Jesus! St. Catherine of Genoa, pray for us!