🇮🇹 🇩🇪 Blessed Raymond of Capua. Feast: 5 October

 

  Blessed Raymond of Capua
Priest ( 1399 Anno Domini A.D.)        Feast: 5 October

 Saint Catherine of Siena
Virgin & Doctor ( 1380 A.D.)         Feast: 29 April

Saints Who Worked Together

Raymond was born of a noble family in Capua, Italy. While studying law in Bologna , Raymond entered the Dominican Order. Later, when living in the Dominican priory in Siena, Raymond met a 27 year old tertiary, Catherine.

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From youth, Catherine had been gifted with visions & ecstasies in prayer  When she first saw Raymond, she heard a voice declare, "This is my beloved servant; this is he to whom I will give you." Soon afterward, Raymond was appointed her spiritual director, a post he held until her death 6 years later. At first, Raymond was somewhat perplexed by his new charge. When the plague came to Siena  they worked side by side to serve the dying  & Raymond became grievously ill

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After Catherine prayed fervently at his bedside  he quickly recovered, & he became convinced of the authenticity of her mission. He fully supported her work of communicating God's mercy by seeking to reconcile quarreling ecclesiastical factions  In 1378 A.D. , some cardinals elected a man to be pope  ♗ different from the one other cardinals recognized to be validly elected & who was still alive-

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occasioning the Great Western Schism, in which 2 (& eventually 3) men were vying for the papacy. Catherine worked fervently to end it & offered her final fasts & prayers for this intention  After her death, Raymond went on to become Master General of the Dominican order & to pen her biography 

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 Loving Father, through the intercession of Saint Catherine and Blessed Raymond , make me a lover of unity 

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