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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.
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. [ 1 ] It was painted c. 1507–1509 , towards the end of Raphael's sojourn in Florence, and shows the young artist in a transitional phase.
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.
Barna da Siena, c. 1340. Although Saint Catherine of Alexandria was supposed to have lived in the third and fourth centuries, the story of her vision appears first to be found in literature after 1337, over a thousand years after the traditional dating of her death, and ten years before Catherine of Siena was born. [3]
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1507–1509) oil on wood, in the National Gallery, London Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Signorelli) (c. 1512), tempera on panel, in the Museo Horne, Florence Saint Catherine of Alexandria Polyptych by Simone Martini (1320), tempera and gold on panel, in the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa
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A small chapel, located near the site of the current altar of St Catherine of Alexandria, was dedicated to the Alexandrine saint in 1347 as part of the Franciscan monastery. [8] The church is first mentioned in the 15th century. [7] [dubious – discuss]