Prayer of Saint Catherine of Siena (2026)
SATB
Duration: 1 minute
Program Note
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was a pious laywoman,
diplomat, writer, and mystic who was canonized by Pope Pius II
in 1461. Throughout her life, she expressed a profound devotion
to the Precious Blood of Christ; her letters often begin "I
Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ,
write to you in His Precious Blood." According to her hagiography,
at the moment of her death, paralyzed from the waist down as the
result of a stroke, she cried out "Blood! Blood!" before expiring.
The prayer attributed to Saint Catherine of Siena to the Precious
Blood, sometimes called the 'Constant Prayer,' is a brief devotional
prayer that seems to have begun to be circulated in English sometime
during the nineteenth century. Though its origin is unknown, it may
be loosely connected to Catherine's nineteenth prayer, written in
Rome on Passion Sunday 1379.
This setting for SATB choir or soloists was composed in March 2026.
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