Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa

Trip to Avignon

She constantly went to the cities of Italy (1375 - Pisa and Lucca), where she was invited as a speaker and a peacemaker. Then, accompanied by his secretary Stephen Makkonen sent to Avignon, wishing to reconcile with the father Florence (Florence, sending an embassy to France, Catherine has invited one of the ambassadors. The city has sought to withdraw the interdict imposed on him pontifex, see War of Eight Saints). This task has not been implemented, but in return, despite the machinations of curial, it facilitated the return of the fathers in Rome avinonskogo captivity: Make sure the seventh to account avinonskogo Pope Gregory XI moved the Holy See back to Rome (left, in September 1376, arrived January 17, 1377 ). She wished that he returned to Rome to restore order and regain the prestige of papal authority as an independent cross-national authority. To maintain its extensive correspondence with the Pontiff, whom she affectionately called - «Daddy» (Italian Babbo). Then, in September 1376 she left Rome and returned to Siena, where the founder of Women's Dominican monastery Belcano.

After the pope left Avignon, Catherine, who was traveling alone, considered its mission accomplished, and met in Siena home to continue his monastic life. But Gregory was in need of her, and she was left to wait for his motorcade in Genoa. She tried to travel silently and invisibly, but in Toulon people know that it drives, and a crowd gathered in anticipation, zhelya talk to her, so widely spread its glory. Then she passed Voragino, which at that time suffered from a plague. Holy said city to erect a new church in honor of the Holy Trinity since the city had happened epidemics, and Catherine is they honor. Every year in April in honor of this event the city hosts a procession in fancy dress XIV century.

Shortly after his return to Siena, Catherine, who called on the public debt and home requests old mother, was receiving numerous requests from Gregory to join him in Rome. But she refused to come, as very frustrated dad, inhospitable encountered Italians. Then it came from Florence Niccolo Soderini to ask her once again to mediate between the rebel city and the Pontiff. He also denied it and he went to the Vatican itself. There, his father was a desire that Catherine should be all there to mediate, and, under the Pontiff, went to Florence, which still remains extremely hostile to the Pope. She drove her mother, Lapa, and one of the sisters, the baptism of the same name as the mother - both were by this time, too postriglis a nun. Mona Lapa was happy to use the chance to see their sons and grandchildren, since the Civil War, moved to Florence. Catherine arrived there in late 1377 - early 1378. She found that the situation is much worse since her last visit, and found that nothing can change. In her letters of that period sound notes of desperation. It was in Florence during a riot June 22, 1377, when miraculously escaped from the assassination attempt on his life to the crowd. Catherine was upset that she did not take the crown of martyrdom.

Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa

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