St. Catherine of Siena
16th century
Fresco
Church of St. Peter Martyr
St. Catherine wears the habit of her order, the Sisters of Penance of St. Dominic. Her right hand holds a model of the church in which this fresco has been painted. The left she holds a book from which rise a crucifix and two roses. Usually the flower associated with this saint is the lily.
The first line of the inscription may be translated "God, who chose the weak things of the world that he may confound the strong" (I Corinthians 1:27). Appropriately, it appears that the inscription was copied out by an illiterate, for the second line is mere gibberish.
This is part of a decorative strip of several frescos below the clerestory in the church, all celebrating Dominican notables. They are in excellent condition because they were covered over for centuries and only rediscovered in the 1920s.
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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.