Saint Catherine of Siena

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She was the penultimate of twenty-five children born to the bourgeois family of Jacques Benincasa and Lapa Piangenti—daughter of the poet Nuccio Piangenti. She was born a twin, but her sister, Janina, died shortly after birth. The family was not poor, as they could afford to take in the orphan of their older brother, Tommaso Fonte, who, after joining the Dominicans, was Catherine's first confessor. Even as a young girl, Catherine was imbued with…