St catherine of genoa biography for kids

Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno,  – 15 September ) was an Italian Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences.

She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in and She died in that city in

Her fame outside her native city is connected with the publication in of the book known in English as the Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa.

Catherine and her teaching were the subject of Baron Friedrich von Hügel's classic work The Mystical Element of Religion ().

Early life

Catherine was born in Genoa in , the last of five children. Her parents were Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro, both of illustrious Italian birth. The fa