Oval glass-fronted silver reliquary theca housing significant ex ossibus relic of Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D. (+1380), a tertiary of the Dominican Order and a Scholastic theologian. She, together with St. Francis of Assisi, was named one of the two patron saints of Italy. In 1970, she was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI, and in 1999, Pope John Paul II named her as one of the six patron saints of Europe.
Saint Catherine protects against fire, bodily ills, illness, miscarriages, people ridiculed for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, sickness, nurses and is a patron of Italy and Europe.
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