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title: SAINT CATHERINE DE' RICCI

subject date: 2017-01-10

caption: Saint Catherine de 'Ricci (born Alessandra Lucrezia Romola, April 23, 1522 Italian, tertiary religious - February 2, 1590) and regular Dominican prioress of the monastery of San Vincenzo in Prato. Educated in a convent from the sixth year of age, immediately he showed inclination to study and religious life, and of his advice in both the religious and administrative, much sought after, it has a rich collection of letters. According to the devotional Legend wore a rough iron chain for self-mortification, and his meditation on the Passion of Jesus was so deep that it bled like whipped; He received the stigmata, which is said were sometimes of a blinding light, and his appearance, alive, thousands of kilometers from the place where he was physically located, is one of the documented miracles of the canonization process. Beatified in 1732, he was proclaimed a saint by Pope Benedict XIV on June 29 1746. Commemoration February 13. colored engraving, Italy 1886

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country: Italia

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: XVI

subject epoch: Rinascimento

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 39756

file name: FSNgilardi_71401.jpg

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