CHAPTER III.--CATHERINE FIESCA ADORNA’S LIFE, UP

TO HER CONVERSION; AND THE CHIEF PECULIARITIES PREDOMINANT THROUGHOUT HER CONVERT YEARS. 85-127

Introductory 85, 86

I. Proposed Study of the Mystical-Volitional Element in a Particular, Concrete Instance: St. Catherine of Genoa 86-90

II. The Materials and Aids towards such a Study 90-93

III. Peculiarities of the Genoese Climate and Geographical Position; of the Ligurian Character; and of the Times into which Catherine was born. Her Family, Father and Mother 93-97

IV. Catherine’s Life, up to the Preliminaries of her Conversion: Autumn 1447 to Mid-March 1474 97-104

V. Her Conversion, with its immediate Preliminaries and Consequences, March 1474 104-109

VI. The Two Conceptions concerning the Character and _Rationale_ of her Penitential Period and of her whole Convert Life. The Position adopted here 109-113

VII. Catherine and the Holy Eucharist 113-116

VIII. Catherine and Confession and Direction 117-123

IX. Catherine and Indulgences 123-126

X. Peculiarities concerning the Invocation of Saints and Intercessory Prayer 126, 127