CHAPTER IV.--CATHERINE’S LIFE FROM 1473 TO 1506, AND

ITS MAIN CHANGES AND GROWTH 128-174

I. First Period of Catherine’s Convert Life: Giuliano’s Bankruptcy and Conversion; their Work among the Poor, March 1473 to May 1477 128-131

II. Catherine and Tommasa Fiesca: their Difference of Character and _attrait_. Peculiarity of Catherine’s Penitence and Health during this Time 131-133

III. Change in the Temper of Catherine’s Penitence, from May 1474 onwards 133-135

IV. Catherine’s Great Fasts 135-137

V. Second, Central Period of Catherine’s Convert Life, 1477-1499: its Special Spiritual Features 138-141

VI. Catherine and Giuliano move into the Hospital in 1479, never again to quit it. She is Matron from 1490 to 1495 141-143

VII. Catherine and the Plague. The Outbreak of 1493 143-145

VIII. Catherine and Ettore Vernazza, 1493-1495 145-147

IX. Catherine’s Health breaks down, 1496; other Events of the same Year 147-149

X. Events of 1497 149-154

XI. Beginning of her Third, Last Period; End of the Extraordinary Fasts; First Relations with Don Marabotto 155-159

XII. Her Conversations with her Disciples; “Caterina Serafina.” Don Marabotto and the Possessed Maid 159-162

XIII. Catherine’s Sympathy with Animal-and Plant-Life: her Love of the Open Air. Her Deep Self-knowledge as to the Healthiness or Morbidness of her Psycho-physical States 163-166

XIV. Catherine’s Social Joys and Sorrows, 1501-1507 166-174