Saint Catrina

Those were the days

        Noble in birth, rich, and exceedingly beautiful, Catrina had at
        the age of sixteen rejected the soliticitations of wealthy suitors.
        She begged her father for a position in his vinyard. She was promised
        to a merchant of dissolute habits, who treated her with such harshness
        that, after five years, wearied by his cruelty, she gave up on the virtue of
        her life and entered into a swingers life in the high society of Genoa.

        At length she met a Doctor, who poisoned her wicked husband.
        With joy, she devoted herself to the service of hospitals, undertaking
        the vilest of sufferings. Her heroic fortitude won her the blessings
        the Bishop Cyprian, who crowned her sainthood apon her long and
        grievous malady. She breathed her last on September 14, 1510ad.



        Reflections: God wills good to come from all things great and small.+



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