Frases de Catalina de Siena
Catalina de Siena
Fecha de nacimiento: 25. Marzo 1347
Fecha de muerte: 29. Abril 1380
Otros nombres:Kateřina Sienská,Santa Caterina da Siena
Catalina Benincasa, conocida como santa Catalina de Siena O.P., fue una santa católica. La Santa Sede la reconoce como co-patrona de Europa e Italia y Doctora de la Iglesia.
Considerada una de las grandes místicas de su siglo , destacó asimismo su faceta de predicadora y escritora, así como su decisiva contribución al regreso del papado a Roma tras el exilio de Aviñón. Es una santa muy venerada y popular en fundaciones, iglesias y santuarios de la Orden dominicana.
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papa Nº 265 de la Iglesia católicaFrases Catalina de Siena
„If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder.“
— Catherine of Siena
Context: If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder. (Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi)[https://books. google. com/books? id=LWNjf0Z4lyQC&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=%22If+you+are+what+you+ought+to+be,+you+will+set+fire+to+all+Italy,+and+not+only+yonder%22&source=bl&ots=6tw9wgS_zN&sig=5LhhXLw-1e1UzxXkUVoRnmMncdM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjxcDfzuPJAhVPw2MKHcPYCiwQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=%22If%20you%20are%20what%20you%20ought%20to%20be%2C%20you%20will%20set%20fire%20to%20all%20Italy%2C%20and%20not%20only%20yonder%22&f=false]
Original Italian: Se sarete quello che dovete essere, metterete fuoco in tutta Italia, non tanto costì.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KX8Nu_SRy7wC&pg=PA461&dq=Se+sarete+quello+che+dovete+essere,+metterete+fuoco+in+tutta+Italia,+non+tanto+costi.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi55pmdzuPJAhUU3GMKHY8OBCUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Se%20sarete%20quello%20che%20dovete%20essere%2C%20metterete%20fuoco%20in%20tutta%20Italia%2C%20non%20tanto%20costi.%22&f=false]
Variant versions:
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze! As quoted by Pope John Paul II in [http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2001/january/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010104_legionari-cristo.html | an address to the Regnum Christi Movement and the Legionaries of Christ (4 January 2001)]
Also as quoted by Pope John Paul II in [http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000820_gmg.html | The Closing Homily at World Youth Day, Tor Vergata, (Sunday 20 August 2000)]
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
As quoted by Bishop Richard Chartres in his sermon to the Royal Wedding congregation at Westminster Abbey (29 April 2011)
„The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.“
— Catherine of Siena
Attributed by Dorothy Day in On Pilgrimage (1948) p. 161
Variants:
All the way to Heaven is Heaven, because Christ is the Way.
As attributed in The Last Things : Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven (1998) by Regis Martin, p. 39
All the way to heaven is heaven, for Jesus said, I am the way.
As attributed in The Fear of Beggars : Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics (2007) by Kelly S. Johnson, p. 209
