Treatise on Purgatory
Author: first_name: Saint Catherine of
last_name: Genoa
Language: English
Year: 1858

Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501. She died in that city in 1510. <br/><br/>

In 1551, 41 years after her death, a book about her life and teaching was published, entitled <i>Lib