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Title: Catherine's revelations for the church and individuals
Review: Catherine of Siena would recieve revelations from God and enter ecstatic trances. In those transes she would have "dialogues" with God which her sisters recorded, thus the title. Catherine was used by the Pope to be peacemaker between warring cities and as such she was a Papal apologist, meeting with nobles and dignitaries throughout Europe, a different role for a woman of that time. As mystic she would dialogue with God about the church, the pope, priests and recieve counsel that are recorded in the "Dialogues". The prose is instructional, not exhortive in nature. It is not a book that one reads expecting to come away uplifted and enthused, rather you will recieve sound direction.
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