Catherine Of Siena
ISBN:
9781586174033
Author: Fr. Larry Richards
ISBN: 9781586174088
Author: Sigrid Undset
Length: 335 pages
Edition: Paperback
Code: CASI-P
Price:: $16.95
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Sigrid Undset’s Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well known, and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based this factual work on primary sources, her own experiences living in Italy, and her profound understanding of the human heart.
One of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, Undset was no stranger to hagiography. Her meticulous research of medieval times, which bore such fruit in her multi-volume masterpieces Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken, acquainted her with some of the holy men and women produced by the Age of Faith. Their exemplary lives left a deep impression upon the author, an impression Undset credited as one of her reasons for entering the Church in 1924.
Catherine
of Siena was a particular favorite of Undset, who also was a Third Order Dominican.
An extraordinarily active, intelligent, and courageous woman, Catherine at an
early age devoted herself to the love of God. The intensity of her prayer, sacrifice,
and service to the poor won her a reputation for holiness and wisdom, and she
was called upon to make peace between warring nobles. Believing that peace in
Italy could be achieved only if the Pope, then living in France, returned to
Rome, Catherine boldly traveled to Avignon to meet with Pope Gregory XI.
With sensitivity to the zealous love of God and man that permeated the life
of Saint Catherine, Undset presents a most moving and memorable portrait of
one of the greatest women of all time.
Sigrid
Undset, a renowned literary author and one of the most acclaimed novelists of
the 20th century, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928 for her epic work
Kristin Lavransdatter.
"One of the most extraordinary writers of the 20th century combines her
literary genius and her faith to compose the biography of one of the most extraordinary
saints of all time. Sigrid Undset's beautiful, spare prose gives us a living
St. Catherine of Sienna, gripping our imagination and expanding the soul's comprehension
of the mysterious works of God."
— Michael D. O'Brien, Author, Father Elijah
Undset
writes Catherine of Siena's biography as both an historian and a believer. Steeped
in research on the Middle Ages through her writing of Kristin Lavransdatter,
for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, she views the fascinating
Catherine in context of the many troubles in Italy and in the Church of the
day. Like Joan of Arc a mysterious figure in many ways, Catherine was clearly
raised up by God at a particular moment to mediate this strife and help direct
the future of the Church. Truly a "mystic's mystic" as she has been
called, Catherine can often seem too touched by the supernatural for us to relate
to her. By placing her in her historic and cultural context, however, Undset's
biography makes this otherworldly saint alive for us today.
—Mary Reichardt
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