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Catherine of Siena: Painting by Lo Spagna, about 1510–15, some 130 years after her death
Later depiction, not a likenessArt Institute of Chicago

The High Middle Ages

Catherine of Siena

1347–1380 · Mystic and counsellor to popes

Catholic

Lay Dominican whose letters and Dialogue pressed the papacy to return to Rome; a Doctor of the Church.