Sappada, Italy, 1950 - by Alfredo Camisa (1927 – 2007), Italian

Saint Catherine of Siena

Doctor of the Church

1347-1380

Feast Day: April 29, (New), April 30 (Trad)

Patronage: against fire, bodily ills,  firefighters, illness, Italy, miscarriages, people ridiculed for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, sickness

Catherine was the youngest of 25 children. She started having mystical experiences and visions when she was only 6. She became a Dominican tertiary at 16. A brilliant theologian, although she never had any formal education, she persuaded the Pope to go back to Rome from Avignon, in 1377, and when she died she was endeavoring to heal the Great Western Schism. In 1375 she received the Stigmata, which was visible only after her death. She died when she was only 33, and her body was found incorrupt in 1430.

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Marvin Koner • A Nun Watches Orphaned Children Sleep, Casa de Beneficencia Orphanage in Havana, Cuba, 1940

what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.

Secret spot, Devon

The Communion of St. Catherine of Siena, 17th century

"Lost child in a department store", New York, 1955 - by Sabine Weiss (1924 - 2021), Swiss/French

I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.