“All has been consecrated. The creatures in the forest know this, the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know as does the heart full of love. Strange a priest would rob us of this knowledge and then empower himself with the ability to make holy what already was.”

Catherine of Sienna (1347 CE-1380 CE), Catherine of Sienna a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and on the Catholic Church. Canonized in 1461, she is also a Doctor of the Church.