St. Catherine of Ricci

St. Catherine of Ricci cultivated a special devotion to the passion of Christ and in union with the sufferings of Our Lord endured many pains and torments and offered many prayers and mortifications for the relief of the holy souls in Purgatory. Her charity on behalf of the holy souls became so famous, as we read in the Miniature Lives of the Saints, that whenever a death occurred in the vicinity of her convent (or indeed anywhere in Tuscany) the friends of the deceased invariably hastened to Catherine to secure her prayers. She knew by revelation the arrival of a soul in purgatory and the hour of its release.