![[Saint Catherine of Alexandria]](stc01011.jpg "31kb jpg photograph of the Saint Catherine of Alexandria stained glass window, Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Macon, Georgia, USA; artist unknown; photographed by the author summer 2003; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do not write to as about the image")
25 November removed from the calendar and cultus suppressed in 1969
Immensely popular during the Middle Ages, there were many chapels and churches devoted to her throughout western Europe, and she was reported as one of the divine advisors to Saint Joan of Arc. Her reputation for learning and wisdom led to her patronage of libaries, librarians, teachers, archivists, and anyone associated with wisdom or teaching. Her debating skill and persuasive language has led to her patronage of lawyers. And her torture on the wheel led to those who work with them asking for her intercession. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
While there may well have been a noble, educated, virginal lady who swayed pagans with her rhetoric during the persecutions, the accretion of legend, romance and poetry has long since buried the real Catherine.
Aalsum, Netherlands apologists craftsmen who work with a wheel (potters, spinners, etc.) archivists attornies barristers Camerata Picena, Italy Dumaguete, Philippines, diocese of dying people educators girls Heidesheim am Rhein, Germany jurists knife grinders knife sharpeners Kuldiga, Latvia lawyers librarians libraries Mähring, Germany maidens mechanics millers nurses old maids philosophers potters preachers scholars schoolchildren scribes secretaries spinners spinsters stenographers students tanners teachers theologians turners University of Paris unmarried girls wheelwrights Zejtun, Malta Zurrieq, Malta
spiked wheel woman strapped to the spiked wheel on which she was martyred woman arguing with pagan philosophers
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