LETTERS

 TO MONNA ALESSA DEI SARACINI

 TO BENINCASA HER BROTHER WHEN HE WAS IN FLORENCE

 TO THE VENERABLE RELIGIOUS, BROTHER ANTONIO OF NIZZA, OF THE ORDER OF THE HERMIT BROTHERS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE AT THE WOOD OF THE LAKE

 TO MONNA AGNESE WHO WAS THE WIFE OF MESSER ORSO MALAVOLTI

 TO SISTER EUGENIA, HER NIECE AT THE CONVENT OF SAINT AGNES OF MONTEPULCIANO

 TO NANNA, DAUGHTER OF BENINCASA A LITTLE MAID, HER NIECE, IN FLORENCE

 TO BROTHER WILLIAM OF ENGLAND OF THE HERMIT BROTHERS OF ST. AUGUSTINE

 TO DANIELLA OF ORVIETO CLOTHED WITH THE HABIT OF ST. DOMINIC

 TO MONNA AGNESE WIFE OF FRANCESCO, A TAILOR OF FLORENCE

 LETTERS IN RESPONSE TO CERTAIN CRITICISMS

 TO A RELIGIOUS MAN IN FLORENCE WHO WAS SHOCKED AT HER ASCETIC PRACTICES

 TO BROTHER BARTOLOMEO DOMINICI OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS WHEN HE WAS BIBLE READER AT FLORENCE

 TO BROTHER MATTEO DI FRANCESCO TOLOMEI OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS

 TO A MANTELLATA OF SAINT DOMINIC CALLED CATARINA DI SCETTO

 LETTERS TO NERI DI LANDOCCIO DEI PAGLIARESI

 TO MONNA GIOVANNA AND HER OTHER DAUGHTERS IN SIENA

 TO MESSER JOHN THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AND HEAD OF THE COMPANY THAT CAME IN THE TIME OF FAMINE

 TO MONNA COLOMBA IN LUCCA

 TO BROTHER RAIMONDO OF CAPUA OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS

 TO GREGORY XI

 TO GREGORY XI

 TO GREGORY XI

 TO BROTHER RAIMONDO OF CAPUA AT AVIGNON

 TO CATARINA OF THE HOSPITAL AND GIOVANNA DI CAPO

 TO SISTER DANIELLA OF ORVIETO CLOTHED WITH THE HABIT OF SAINT DOMINIC WHO NOT BEING ABLE TO CARRY OUT HER GREAT PENANCES HAD FALLEN INTO DEEP AFFLICTI

 TO BROTHER RAIMONDO OF CAPUA OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS

 AND TO MASTER JOHN III. OF THE ORDER OF THE HERMIT BROTHERS OF ST. AUGUSTINE

 AND TO ALL THEIR COMPANIONS WHEN THEY WERE AT AVIGNON

 TO SISTER BARTOLOMEA DELLA SETA NUN IN THE CONVENT OF SANTO STEFANO AT PISA

 TO GREGORY XI

 TO THE KING OF FRANCE

 LETTERS TO FLORENCE

 TO THE EIGHT OF WAR CHOSEN BY THE COMMUNE OF FLORENCE, AT WHOSE INSTANCE THE SAINT WENT TO POPE GREGORY XI

 TO BUONACCORSO DI LAPO IN FLORENCE WRITTEN WHEN THE SAINT WAS AT AVIGNON

 TO GREGORY XI

 TO MONNA LAPA HER MOTHER BEFORE SHE RETURNED FROM AVIGNON

 TO MONNA GIOVANNA DI CORRADO MACONI

 TO MESSER RISTORO CANIGIANI

 TO THE ANZIANI AND CONSULS AND GONFALONIERI OF BOLOGNA

 TO NICHOLAS OF OSIMO

 TO MISSER LORENZO DEL PINO OF BOLOGNA, DOCTOR IN DECRETALS (WRITTEN IN TRANCE)

 TO MONNA LAPA HER MOTHER AND TO MONNA CECCA IN THE MONASTERY OF SAINT AGNES AT MONTEPULCIANO, WHEN SHE WAS AT ROCCA

 TO MONNA CATARINA OF THE HOSPITAL AND TO GIOVANNA DI CAPO IN SIENA

 TO MONNA ALESSA CLOTHED WITH THE HABIT OF SAINT DOMINIC, WHEN SHE WAS AT ROCCA

 TO GREGORY XI

 TO RAIMONDO OF CAPUA OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS

 TO URBAN VI

 TO HER SPIRITUAL CHILDREN IN SIENA

 TO BROTHER WILLIAM AND TO MESSER MATTEO OF THE MISERICORDIA

 AND TO BROTHER SANTI AND TO HER OTHER SONS

 TO SANO DI MACO AND ALL HER OTHER SONS IN SIENA

 TO BROTHER RAIMONDO OF CAPUA OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS

 TO URBAN VI

 TO DON GIOVANNI OF THE CELLS OF VALLOMBROSA

 TO MONNA ALESSA WHEN THE SAINT WAS AT FLORENCE

 TO SANO DI MACO AND TO THE OTHER SONS IN CHRIST WHILE SHE WAS IN FLORENCE

 TO THREE ITALIAN CARDINALS

 TO GIOVANNA QUEEN OF NAPLES

 TO SISTER DANIELLA OF ORVIETO

 TO STEFANO MACONI

 TO CERTAIN HOLY HERMITS WHO HAD BEEN INVITED TO ROME BY THE POPE

 TO BROTHER WILLIAM OF ENGLAND AND BROTHER ANTONIO OF NIZZA AT LECCETO

 TO BROTHER ANDREA OF LUCCA TO BROTHER BALDO AND TO BROTHER LANDO SERVANTS OF GOD IN SPOLETO, WHEN THEY WERE SUMMONED BY THE HOLY FATHER

 TO BROTHER ANTONIO OF NIZZA OF THE HERMIT BROTHERS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE AT THE CONVENT OF LECCETO NEAR SIENA

 TO QUEEN GIOVANNA OF NAPLES (WRITTEN IN TRANCE)

 TO BROTHER RAIMONDO OF THE PREACHING ORDER WHEN HE WAS IN GENOA

 TO URBAN VI

 TO MASTER RAIMONDO OF CAPUA

 TO MASTER RAIMONDO OF CAPUA OF THE ORDER OF THE PREACHERS

TO SANO DI MACO AND TO THE OTHER SONS IN CHRIST WHILE SHE WAS IN FLORENCE

In the Name of Jesus Christ crucified and of sweet Mary:

Dearest sons in Christ sweet Jesus: I Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, write to you in His precious Blood: with desire to see you true sons, really serving our sweet Saviour, that you may give more zealously thanks and praise to His name.

Oh, dearest sons, God has heard the cry of His servants, who for so long have cried aloud before His face, and the lamentable cry which they have raised so long over the sons who were dead. Now are they risen again--from death they have come to life, and from blindness to light. Dearest sons, the lame walk, and the deaf hear, the blind eye sees and the dumb speak, crying aloud with a loud voice: "Peace, peace, peace!" with great gladness--seeing themselves return as sons into the obedience and favour of their father, their minds being reconciled. As people who now begin to see, they say: "Thanks be to Thee, Lord, who hast reconciled us with our holy father." Now the Lamb of God, sweet Christ on earth, is called holy, while before he was called a heretic and a Patarin. Now they receive him for a father, where before they refused him. I do not wonder, for the cloud is passed, and fair weather has come. Rejoice, rejoice, dearest sons, with very sweet weeping for thanksgiving, before the Highest Eternal Father, not calling yourselves content with this, but praying Him that soon may be raised the gonfalon of the most holy Cross. Rejoice, exult, in Christ sweet Jesus; let our hearts break, seeing the largess of the infinite goodness of God. Now peace is made, despite him who would hinder it. Discomfited is the devil of hell.

Saturday evening one olive came at one o'clock at night; and to-day at vespers came the other. And Saturday evening that friend of ours was caught with a companion, so that at one time heresy was thoroughly put an end to and peace came; now he is in prison. Pray God for him, that He give him true light and knowledge. Drown you and bathe you in the Blood of Christ crucified. Love, love one another. I send you some of the olive of peace. Remain in the holy and sweet grace of God. Sweet Jesus, Jesus Love.