Widow · Remembered on September 15
St. Catherine of Genoa
St. Catherine of Genoa is remembered on September 15 in Bless’s calendar of saints. Below: a short life and 1 sourced quotation in their own words.
| Remembered on | September 15 |
|---|---|
| Title | Widow |
| Died | 1510 |
| In their own words | 1 sourced quotation · 1 attributed saying (source unconfirmed) |
Life
A Genoese noblewoman married at sixteen to a wastrel, whose midlife conversion in a confessional turned her into mystic and hospital administrator at once — she ran Genoa’s great Pammatone hospital through plague years while living in profound union with God.
Her teaching on purgatory — the soul plunging itself willingly into purifying love — remains unmatched. Her husband, converted, died a Franciscan tertiary at her side.
In their own words
Each quotation names the work it comes from. Bless quotes these in the comments beside the verses listed under In Scripture.
I do not want love that can be labeled 'for God'; I want that love which is God.
Attributed, source unconfirmed
These sayings circulate under the saint’s name, but no source has been confirmed. Bless shows them with that label.
My deepest me is God.
In Scripture
In Bless, St. Catherine of Genoa’s words appear in the comments beside these verses. This page’s labels say how each is linked: “on this verse” means the saint wrote about that very verse; “on this theme” means the quotation shares its theme. Scripture is quoted from the Catholic Public Domain Version.
On this theme · source unconfirmed
I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me.
John 17:23 · CPDV Beside their words: “My deepest me is God.”
On this theme · source unconfirmed
I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
Galatians 2:20 · CPDV Beside their words: “My deepest me is God.”
On this theme
Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
1 John 4:8 · CPDV Beside their words: “I do not want love that can be labeled 'for God'; I want that love which is God.”
On this theme
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16 · CPDV Beside their words: “I do not want love that can be labeled 'for God'; I want that love which is God.”
In the calendar
Through December 31, 2028, September 15 is taken by another celebration in the US calendar, so Bless’s Today screen shows another saint that day. St. Catherine of Genoa keeps September 15 in Bless’s calendar of saints, the September saints and the birthday finder.
- : Our Lady of Sorrows — Today shows Blessed Virgin Mary
- : Our Lady of Sorrows — Today shows Blessed Virgin Mary
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