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• Catherine of Siena was born and raised in Siena, where she resisted parental opposition to devote herself to God.
• Catherine joined the "mantellates," later formalized as the Third Order of the Dominicans.
• Catherine influenced Pope Gregory XI's decision to leave Avignon for Rome in 1376.
• Catherine negotiated peace with Florence and returned to Siena after Gregory XI's death.
• Catherine dictated spiritual treatises, including "The Dialogue of Divine Providence."
• Catherine sent letters to promote obedience to Pope Urban VI during the Great Schism.
• Catherine devoted herself to the Church's cause and died on 29 April 1380 due to rigorous fasting.
• Catherine was canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461 and declared patron saint of Rome and Italy.
• Catherine was the second woman declared Doctor of the Church after Teresa of Ávila.
• Catherine was an influential figure in medieval Catholicism and had a significant impact on the papacy.
• Catherine had extensive authorship, including "The Dialogue," hundreds of letters, prayers.
• Catherine played a rare role for a woman in the Middle Ages, undertaking missions from the pope.
• Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa is born in Siena, Republic of Siena (today Italy) on March 25, 1347.
• The Black Death ravages Europe around 1349.
• Caterina has her first vision of Christ at the age of five or six.
• Caterina vows to give her whole life to God at the age of seven.
• Caterina's sister Bonaventura dies in childbirth, and her parents want her to marry Bonaventura's widower.
• Caterina opposes and starts a strict fast.
• Caterina resists the expected path of marriage or becoming a nun.
• Caterina establishes an inner cell in her mind to spiritually serve her family.
• Caterina falls seriously ill, and her mother allows her to join the Mantellate, a local association of devout women.
• Caterina experiences a "Mystical Marriage" with Jesus, receiving the ring of Christ's foreskin.
• Caterina dedicates herself to helping the sick and incarcerated in Siena, earning the reputation of a holy woman from 1367-1374.
• Caterina travels to Florence, possibly interviewed by Dominican authorities in 1375.
• Caterina intervenes in wider politics, advocating clergy reform and promoting a new crusade in 1375.
• Caterina receives the stigmata in Pisa in 1376.
• Caterina goes to Avignon as an ambassador of the Republic of Florence to make peace with the Papal States in 1376.
• Caterina founds a women's monastery outside Siena and engages in peace-making and preaching in Rocca d'Orcia in 1377.
• Caterina returns to Florence to seek peace between Florence and Rome in 1378.
• The Western Schism breaks out in late 1378.
• Caterina is summoned to Rome by Pope Urban VI to convince nobles and cardinals of his legitimacy on February 26, 1380.
• Caterina loses the use of her legs and experiences other physical difficulties on April 29, 1380.
• Caterina dies in Rome at the age of thirty-three, having suffered a massive stroke on April 29, 1380.
• The father of St. Catherine is Jacopo di Benincasa who was a cloth dyer.
• St. Catherine's mother Lapa Piagenti was the daughter of a local poet.