Caterina Moriggi (1437 - 6 April 1478) was an Italian Roman Catholic who became a professed religious and adhered to the teachings and traditions of Augustine of Hippo.

[2] At the age of fourteen she felt called to devote herself to the service of God; her willingness to live the life of an ascetic came from the well-known preacher and Franciscan Alberto de Sarteano.

Acting on this, she lived - for a period of fifteen years starting in 1450 - with a group of fellow women as hermits in the mountains near Varese under the guidance of the archpriest of the Marian shrine near their location.

She was noted for her personal holiness as well as for the austere model of which she led her life and was known to survive on the irregular gifts of food that spiritual students of hers brought to her.

[2][3] In 1473 the Duke of Milan - Galeazzo Maria Sforza requested, on her behalf, permission of Pope Sixtus IV for approval of Moriggi's following.