The Shrine of the House of Saint Catherine

Right wall

  • The first episode shows Lapa, Catherine’s mother, watching her little daughter as she climbs the stairs suspended mid-air, thus realizing that this girl was different from her other children. Catherine’s early vocation was the cause of great conflict with her family, especially her mother, who judged Catherine’s childish behavior as fanaticism, trying every way she could to put an end to . . .