And if you want more insights into Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, especially this Holy Week, I commend the words of an Italian mystic from the 14th century. Her name is Saint Catherine of Siena.

View The Virgin and Child in glory with the Infant Saint John, Saint George, Saint Francis, Saint Michael, Saint Clare of Assisi, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Theresa of Avila by Hans ...

The Diocese of Avila recently announced that the sixteenth-century tomb of St. Teresa of Avila, which had been opened in 1914, had been reopened and found in remarkable condition.

In her long adult life, Catherine sat at the apex of French power: as queen consort, as regent, as the mother of the last three Valois kings. But her place in history is secured most firmly by her ...