St Catherine de Ricci

St. Catherine was named Alexandrina when she was born.  Her mother died when she was just a baby; her father took good care of her and told her about Jesus.  When she was only 6 years old, she started to pray on her own and became very close to Jesus.  She could see and speak with her guardian angel and it was her guardian angel that taught her how to pray the rosary. Her father saw how much she loved Jesus and so he sent her to a convent to go to school.  She later entered the convent to become a nun and she took the name Sister Catherine.  Sister Catherine loved Jesus and spent  a lot of time praying about his crucifixion and death. When she was older she received the wounds that Jesus received at his death.  Every week for 12 years, she would suffer the pain of Jesus' wounds from Thursday at noon until Friday at 4pm.  She was put in charge of the sisters because she did such a good job guiding the sisters and many others who asked for her advise.  She wrote many letters to important people, some of them would be Pope, helping them to get closer to Jesus.  St Catherine died when she was 68 years old.