CATERINA di GESÙ. - Discalced Carmelite, in the world C. de Nicolas, b. at Bordeaux on 5 Apr. 1589, d.
CATERINA DI GESÙ - CATERINA DI S. AGOSTINO
in Paris, in repute for holiness, on 19 Feb. 1623. Prevened by grace at the age of eight, she entered the Carmelite convent in Paris (Faubourg St-Jacques) in 1608. Under the guidance of the venerable M. Maddalena di S. Giuseppe (M. Dubois de Fontaines), she made marvellous progress in perfection, and “the Lord raised her to an interior life so great and particular that only a few things can be said of her, because the greatest were hidden.” Endowed with extraordinary favours—visions, ecstasies, revelations, prophecy—and in continual union with God, she died “consumed by Him in soul and spirit.”
BIBL.: M. Magdeleine, La vie de sœur Catherine de Jésus, with a collection of her letters, Parigi 1626 (other editions, ibid., 1628, 1631, 1616, 1929); Filippo della S.ma Trinità, Decor Carmeli, III, Lione 1605, p. 49; J.-M. de l'Enfant Jésus, s. V. in DSp, II, cols. 351-52; H. Bremond, Hist. litt. du sentiment religieux en France, II, Parigi 1925, pp. 331-43. Ambrogio di S. Teresa