is "Seven Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare", which she appears to have first written in 1438, and then rewritten and augmented between 1450 and 1456.
Although she probably taught similar ideas, she kept the written version hidden until she neared death, and then handed it to her confessor with instructions to send a copy to the Poor Clares at Ferrara.
Part of this book describes at length her visions both of God and of Satan. The treatise was circulated in manuscript form through a network of Poor Clare convents. The "Sette Armi Spirituali" became an important part of the campaign for her canonization.
It was first printed in 1475, and went through 21 later editions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including being translated in Latin, French, Portuguese, English, Spanish, and German. It therefore played an important role in the dissemination of late medieval vernacular [volkstaal] mysticism in the early modern period.
In addition...
she wrote lauds, short religious treatises, and letters, as well as a 5000-line Latin poem called "Rosarium Metricum", "I Dodici Giardini" and "I Sermoni". These were discovered around 2000 and described by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi as...
"...now revealed in their surprising beauty. We can ascertain that she was not undeserving of her renown as a highly cultivated person. We are now in a position to meditate on a veritable monument of theology which, after the 'Treatise on the Seven Spiritual Weapons', is made up of distinct and autonomous parts: 'The Twelve Gardens', a mystical work of her youth, 'Rosarium', a Latin poem on the life of Jesus, and 'The Sermons', copies of Catherine's words to her religious sisters."
~wikipedia~
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