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Statue of St. Catherine of Siena

St. Catherine of Siena deliberately told popes, queens and kings how to behave. She was spontaneous, unafraid of authority and fearless in the face of death. She was a Dominican religious who corresponded with Popes and peasants alike.

81 years after her death Pope Pius II
 canonized Catherine in 1461

Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI in 1970.

"Leave the city of your birth. I shall be with you always, and I shall lead you forth and bring you back again. You will carry the honor of My name to the lowly and the great, to the laity as well as to the religious and clergy. I shall give you an eloquence and a wisdom that no one will be able to resist. I shall send you to pontiffs, to those who govern the Church and the Christian people, for, as is my custom, I shall confound the pride of the strong with one who is weak."

- Saint Catherine of Siena Sixth Centenary, 1380 - 1980.

St. Catherine came to Elizabeth Baron

St. Catherine came to Elizabeth Baron around 1978... "when I was visited by the spirit of what appeared to be a lady in white. She came to me at 5:00 a.m. on a cold February Chicago morning just as I awoke and turned the light on by my bedside to read a little before my children got up. The "spirit" appeared in a glorious bright light that seemed to inundate my very soul! She told me I had a mission and that she would like to work through me to help others to feel good about themselves and to help the world to be a better place. My little daughter Theresa, who was six years old at the time, came to my bedroom doorway and asked, "Who was that nun, Mommy?" My life would never be the same.

"It was only weeks before, that I had been beaten, raped and left for dead by my car in broad daylight with a skull fracture and a brain concussion. I awoke to find myself lying flat on my back, head bandaged, in a hospital bed. At the time, I felt I had reached the end of my journey. Later, I was to learn the spirit of the nun who had appeared to me was none other than the famous St. Catherine of Siena, Italy, a fourteenth-century nun who had advised and counseled many... even the Pope! She had been blessed with beautiful spiritual gifts of healing and the ability to help others in very unique ways. At first, it was bewildering to even think about why she would choose to come to me because I had just gotten a divorce from my husband, who was Chief of Police, and had really hit rock bottom in my life. But it was time for my life to change and so I accepted Catherine as my guardian angel.

"Being possessed by a Catholic saint was especially hard for me to accept because I had been raised a Baptist and was taught Catholics were somehow evil, since my parents had always told me it was wrong to worship the Virgin Mary. Only Baptists could enter into the Holy of Holies... or so I thought. So it was a special shock to me that a nun would want to work with a Baptist (and not a good one at that). She finally helped me to realize that she was something wonderful happening to me. Since 1978 I have been helping many through her... or maybe I should say, she's been helping many through me."