ST. CATHARINE DE RICCI, V, O.S.D.

See her life, written by F. Seraphin Razzi, a Dominican friar, who knew

her, and was fifty-eight years old when she died. The nuns of her

monastery gave an ample testimony that this account was conformable

partly to what they knew of her, and partly to MS. memorials left by her

confessor and others concerning her. Whence F. Echard calls this life a

work accurately written. It was printed in 4to. at Lucca, in 1594. Her

life was again compiled by F. Philip Galdi, confessor to the saint and

to the duchess of Urbino, and printed at Florence, in two vols. 4to., in

1622. FF. Michael Pio and John Lopez, of the same order, have given

abstracts of her life. See likewise Bened. XIV. de Can. Serv. Dei, t. 5,

inter Act. Can. 5. SS. Append.

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