St Catherine of Siena Mini Wooden Retablo

St. Catherine of Seina Retablo - Patroness of Nurses, Sick People, Firefighters; Invoked against Fire, Illness, Miscarriages.
 
St. Catherine of Seina was an Italian Catholic mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church due to her extensive theological authorship. She is also considered to have influenced Italian literature.
 
Born and raised in Siena, Catherine wanted from an early age to devote herself to God, which was against the will of her parents. She joined the "mantellates", a group of pious women, primarily widows, informally devoted to Dominican spirituality; later these types of urban pious groups would be formalised as the Third Order of the Dominicans, but not until after Catherine's death.
She dictated to secretaries her set of spiritual treatises, The Dialogue of Divine Providence.
 
St. Catherine did receive stigmata which only showed after her death.
St. Catherine's words at the back of the Retablo: "You are rewarded not according to your work or your time, but according to the measure of your love." 
 
A Retablo is a devotional painting derived from traditional Catholic Church Art, often on rectangular wooden board that illustrate holy images such as Christ, the Virgin Mary or Saints. 
 
Pocket Size - 3.8 x 6.35 cm
Made in USA