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St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota was founded in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and named for St. Catherine of Alexandria. [53] University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, California is the first Eastern Orthodox Christian university in the United States and the English-speaking world.
St. Catherine's Cathedral [1] (Arabic: كاتدرائية سانت كاترين) is a Catholic cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt. It is the seat of the Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt. [2] It also serves as the church of the Franciscan monastery in Alexandria.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. In the painting, Catherine of Alexandria is looking upward in ecstasy and leaning on a wheel, an allusion to the breaking wheel (or Catherine wheel) of her martyrdom.
Articles relating to Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth 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 the age of 14, converted hundreds of people to Christianity and was martyred around the age of eighteen.
Little is known of Sœur de La Chapelle's life apart from the fact she authored a tragedy, The Illustrious Philosopher, or the Story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (L'Illustre philosophe, ou l'histoire de Sainte-Catherine d'Alexandrie), about the saint's martyrdom.
A rare version with both saints: Ambrogio Bergognone, The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena. The mystical marriage of Saint Catherine covers two different subjects often shown in Catholic art arising from visions received by either Catherine of Alexandria or Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), in which these virgin saints went through a mystical ...
The church of St. Catherine of Alexandria is a building in the historic center of Gaeta, Italy, located on Pius IX Street. [1]The church, closed for worship since 1987 and in a state of abandonment, though not deconsecrated, is located within the territory of the parish that overlooks the cathedral of Saints Erasmus and Marcianus and St. Mary of the Assumption.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1598) is an oil painting (173x133 cm) by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, painted from 1598-1599. It is part of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of Madrid . History and description