Crippled Sixteen-Year-Old Catalina Is The One Person Unable To Join In The Festivities Of The Feast Of The Assumption. But Then She Has A Vision Of The Virgin, And Is Miraculously Cured. In The Dark Days Of The Spanish Inquisition, Such A Claim To Blessedness Has Serious Consequences, Especially When Catalina Seems More Inclined To Obey Her Heart Than The Demands Of The Church.The Last Of Maughams Novels, Catalina Is A Romantic Celebration Of Spain And A Delightfully Mischievous Satire On Absolutism.