Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around age 14, converted hundreds of people to Christianity, and was martyred around age 18.
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[edit]- (To the Roman emperor) Why do you want to lose this crowd with the worship of gods? Learn about God, Creator of the world, and His only Son Jesus Christ, who freed humanity from hell with the cross!
- Gilberto Aquini, Un santo al giorno: 366 brevi biografie di santi tra storia, poesia e devozione, Terra Santa, Milano, 2014, cap. santa Caterina d'Alessandria. ISBN 978-88-6240-249-1<
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[edit]- Then, when she was beheaded, milk flowed from her body instead of blood. The angels took her body and carried it from that place to Mount Sinai, a journey of more than twenty days, and there they buried her with full honors. From her bones flows an oil that heals the limbs of all the sick. Her passion took place under the tyrant Maxentius or Maximinus, who ascended the throne around 310. How Maximinus was punished for this crime, and for many others, can be read in the story of the Invention of the Holy Cross.
- Jacopo da Varazze, Legenda aurea, Alessandro and Lucetta Vitale Brovarone (editors), Einaudi, Torino, 1995, p. 969. ISBN 88-06-13885-5 (in Italian).
