St. Catherine of Sienna
 
St. Catherine’s feast day is April 29, she is the patroness against fire, illness, the United States, Italy, miscarriages, people ridiculed for their faith, sexual temptation, and nurses.
 
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St. Catherine of Siena was a Dominican mystic, theologian, and activist who lived in the 14th century and was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1970. She is honored for her mystical writings, including her major work The Dialogue of Divine Providence, as well as her influential letters.
 
"Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything."
 
"Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world."
 
"Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue."
 
"And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.