Black History Month - Catherine of Alexandria

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Name -  St Catherine of Alexandria

Born - 287

Died - 305 (aged 17–18)

Veneration – Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Oriental Orthodox Church and Lutheran Church.

Feast – 25th November 24th November (Orthodox churches of Russian background)

Patronage –Unmarried girls; Aalsum; apologists; craftsmen who work with a wheel (potters and spinners)’ archivists; dying people; educators; girls;  jurists; knife sharpeners; lawyers; librarians; libraries; Baliol College; Massey College; maidens; mechanics; millers;  milliners; hat makers; nurses; philosophers; preachers; scholars; schoolchildren; scribes; secretaries; spinsters; stenographers; students; tanners; theologians; University of Oviedo, University of Paris; haberdashers; wheelwrights; Żejtun, Malta; Żurrieq, Malta; Pagbilao, Quezon, Philippines; Carcar City, Cebu, Philippines; Katerini, Greece.

Attributes- the "breaking wheel"; sword; with a crown at her feet; hailstones; bridal veil and ring; dove; scourge; book; woman arguing with pagan philosophers, decapitation.



Links -
https://oca.org/saints/lives/2015/11/24/103382-great-martyr-catherine-of-alexandria
https://web.archive.org/web/20080225022934/http://www.saintkatherineorthodoxchurch.org/saintkatherine.htm
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/11/happy-st-catherines-day.html

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