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Katherine (/ k æ θ ə r ɪ n /), also spelled Catherine and other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria .
Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, [a] was, according to tradition, 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 ...
Katharine Bushnell (born Sophia Caroline Bushnell; February 5, 1855, in Evanston, Illinois – January 26, 1946) was a medical doctor, Christian writer, Bible scholar, social activist, and forerunner of feminist theology.
Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine of the Wheel, or Great Martyr Saint Catherine (4th century); Catherine of Vadstena (c. 1332–1381), Swedish nun and author; Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), TOSD Italian philosopher, theologian, doctor of the church and patron saint of Italy
The Sister Catherine Treatise is often cited, along with Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls, as one of the representative literary expressions of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, which held that a divine union with God was possible to people in this life and, more controversially, independently of the ministrations of the Church.
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The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner was put together by editors Rosemary P. Carbine and Hilda P. Koster, who were both so deeply moved and affected by Kathryn's work they decided to put together this book to best give their thanks to Kathryn Tanner for her contributions to contemporary theology. [12]
Catherine was nursed by her mother and developed into a healthy child. She was two years old when Lapa had her 25th child, another daughter named Giovanna. [10] As a child, Catherine was so merry that the family gave her the pet name of "Euphrosyne", which is Greek for "joy", and the name of an Euphrosyne of Alexandria. [11]