The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena (Illustrated)

The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena was dictated to her secretaries by the Saint in ecstasy. In this book, every well-known form of Christian life, healthy or parasitic, is treated of, detailed, analyzed incisively, remorselessly, and then subsumed under the general conception of God's infinite loving-kindness and mercy. In the Dialogo we discover a great saint, one of the most extraordinary women who ever lived, treating, in a manner so simple and familiar as at times to become almost colloq