Events Tagged: "Catherine"

St. Catherine: Four-hour mystical death in Pisa - Christ shows her hell, purgatory, and heaven - No breath or pulse detected - Returns saying: 'I have seen the hidden things of God'

St. Catherine: Receives invisible stigmata in Pisa (April 1) - 'Lord, I beseech You, let not the marks appear outwardly' - Witnesses see her levitate

St. Catherine: Miraculously learns to write (previously illiterate) - Christ: 'I am He who is, you are she who is not' - Begins dictating 'Dialogue' - Christ on mercy: 'My mercy is incomparably greater than all the sins anyone could commit'

St. Catherine travels to Avignon - Tells Pope Gregory XI: 'Be a courageous man and not a timid child!' - Pope returns to Rome ending Avignon captivity

St. Catherine: Levitates during Mass witnessed by future Pope Urban VI - Christ speaks: 'Never cease offering Me the incense of fragrant prayers' - 'Blood! Blood!' becomes her constant cry

St. Catherine begins having visions of Church's future trials - 'The Church will be persecuted and apparently destroyed, but will rise more beautiful' - Correctly prophesies coming Great Schism

St. Catherine dies (April 29) - 'Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit' - Room fills with heavenly fragrance - Had offered life for Church unity, dies as Great Schism begins

Catherine de' Medici marries future Henry II of France - will become Queen, mother of three French kings

Catherine de' Medici becomes Regent of France - rules for son Charles IX, navigates Wars of Religion

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - Catherine de' Medici implicated in killing thousands of Huguenots