--- title: "St. Catherine of Genoa: Feast Day September 15 · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/ description: "St. Catherine of Genoa, Widow. Remembered on September 15, died 1510. Read their life and their own words, with sources." --- 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](https://blessbible.app/saints/september/#15) | | Title | Widow | | Died | 1510 | | In their own words | [1 sourced quotation](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#words) · 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](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#scripture). > I do not want love that can be labeled 'for God'; I want that love which is God. — *Spiritual Dialogue*, c. 1510 ### 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. — Popular saying, source unconfirmed ## 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. 1. 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/17/#v23) · CPDV Beside their words: [“My deepest me is God.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#q169) 2. 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/galatians/2/#v20) · CPDV Beside their words: [“My deepest me is God.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#q169) 3. On this theme > Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love. — [1 John 4:8](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-john/4/#v8) · CPDV Beside their words: [“I do not want love that can be labeled 'for God'; I want that love which is God.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#q170) 4. 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-john/4/#v16) · CPDV Beside their words: [“I do not want love that can be labeled 'for God'; I want that love which is God.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#q170) ## 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](https://blessbible.app/saints/september/#15) and the [birthday finder](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#09-15). - [Wednesday, September 15, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/15/): Our Lady of Sorrows — Today shows [Blessed Virgin Mary](https://blessbible.app/saints/blessed-virgin-mary/) - [Friday, September 15, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/09/15/): Our Lady of Sorrows — Today shows [Blessed Virgin Mary](https://blessbible.app/saints/blessed-virgin-mary/) [September 14 St. Notburga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-notburga/) [September 16 St. Cyprian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/) [All the saints of September](https://blessbible.app/saints/september/) [Born on September 15?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#09-15) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/) Spotted a mistake in a date, a patronage or a quotation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. St. Catherine of Genoa Remembered on September 15 On this page 1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#life) 2. [In their own words](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#words) 3. [In Scripture](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#scripture) 4. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/#calendar) In the app Bless shows a saint every day on its Today screen, with their life and their words. Free on iPhone.