A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Catharine St., of Bologna
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CATHARINE ST.,
A saint of the Romish church, canonized by Pope Clement the Seventh. She was born at Bologna in 1413, and admitted a nun at Ferrara, in 1432. She was afterwards abbess of a convent at Bologna, where she died in 1463. She wrote a book of "Revelations," and several pieces in Latin and Italian.