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This classic of the first female Doctor of the Church presents itself as a conversation or dialogue between the saint and God the Father, and is composed of four treatises: on Divine Providence, on Discretion, on Prayer, and on Obedience. It covers a very wide range of topics surrounding the Catholic faith and the spiritual life and exhales the tremendous love for God and zeal for souls for which the virgin of Siena is so well known.

St Catherine was born in 1347 at Siena in northern Italy. The 25th child of a wood dyer, she began seeing visions at the age of 6, and throughout her life experienced mystical appearances of Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Saints. She was given the Stigmata in 1375, five years before her death at the age of 33. St Catherine's 'Dialogue' was written "during a state of ecstasy while in dialogue with God the Father." It is set out in the form of ...