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St. Catherine of Bologna, much venerated in her own city, has been
little known outside of her native region but interest in her is
now increasing. The outline of her life is clear and her own work,
The Seven Spiritual Weapons, tells a good deal about her inner
experiences and early years in the cloister. The introduction to
this translation situates her life in the history of Ferrara and
Bologna and studies how the external history of the community
impinged on Catherine's own religious experience and how it was
interwoven with her successful struggle against depression.
St. Winefride, beheaded by a lustful suitor, was brought back to
life by the power of prayer. On the site where her blood was
spilled, a spring of healing water erupted and became the focus of
a miracle-working cult which gained influence throughout the Middle
Ages and the early modern period. Two Medival Lives of Saint
Winefride brings together two twelfth-century accounts of her life,
miracles and relics, with a study of British well-cults and her
significance in medival and early modern Britain.
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