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Blessed Catherine Jarrige (4 October 1754 – 4 July 1836), known as Catinon Menette, a beatified third-order Dominican of the Catholic Church. == Youth == Catherine was born on October 4, 1754 into a poor family of peasants in Doumis, Cantal. Her parents and their seven children all lived together in a single household. Still quite young, like all of the youth of her age and background, she worked in the fields with her family and at the age of 9 she was sent to work as a servant of a neighbor. There it was said that she lived a happy and even mischievous life. It was also at this age, as was the norm, that she made her first Holy Communion, a cherished memory for the rest of her life. In the imitation of her patron, St. Catherine of Siena, she became a third-order Dominican. She greatly enjoyed to dance Bourrée, but she renounced it and would say while she was going around everywhere to help the poor: "I would like that people confess as many times as I danced the Bourrée" She spent all her life providing for the spiritual and material needs of the needy, requisitioning alms for them, and inspiring the most reticent to awaken their conscience. She was totally devoted to the most humble and poorest people, looked after them by providing them with food and clothing and generally helping and comforting them throughout her life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Jarrige」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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