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Saint Catherine of Genoa
(Caterina da Genova)

Feast Day – March 14

Catarinetta (little Catherine) Fieschi, child of a noble family of Genoa, was born 1447.

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At thirteen she wanted to enter a convent, but was refused admission because of her youth. When she was sixteen, she was given in marriage to a young nobleman, Julian Adorno by name. For this reason she is sometimes called St Catherine Fieschi-Adorno.

Saint Catherine of Genoa's husband turned out to be pleasure-loving, quick-tempered, unfaithful.

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This was a great trial for Catarinetta; and for a while she tried to drown her disappointment in a whirl of pleasure. However, she retained her trust in God and did not give up her religious exercises.

One day in 1473 she visited the convent where her sister was a nun, and there went to confession. That confession was a turning point in her life.

In her sadness and desperation she had turned to God; and He now filled her soul with a large measure