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17 unusual facts about Catherine of Alexandria


Agia Aikaterini, Patras

Gyftika-Agia Aikaterini (Greek: Αγία Αικατερίνη meaning Saint Catherine, Γύφτικα) is a neighbourhood in the eastcentral part of the city of Patras, located 2 km from the downtown core.

Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao

Dennis M. Imperial, P.C. the newly assigned parish priest of the St. Catherine of Alexandria became the new director of CNJP with Mrs. Marcelita M. Martinez, as school principal.

Catherine wheel

Catherine wheel or breaking wheel, an instrument of torturous execution associated with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Church of St.Catherine of Alexandria

St.Catherine of Alexandria church is a church takes up the most southern part of a wide area on the foot of the historical hill of Paternò in Sicily, close by St.Barbara church and the former convent of St. Annunziata.

Haydar Pasha, Nicosia

On the right-hand side of the building, the spot where the tomb of St. Catherine is said to have been was still shown in the 19th century and the Greek Cypriots often come and lit their oil lamps there.

Museo Matris Domini

There is another series of frescoes of great emotive and narrative quality, representing Jesus among the Doctors, the Baptism, the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Saint Catherine of Alexandria upon the Wheel, Saint Martin and the Pauper, Jesus entering Jerusalem, and the Miracle of the reanimation of Napoleone Orsini by Saint Dominic, showing the young man falling from his horse.

Queen Mary Psalter

A final group of images concerns saints, three of which are female (Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, and Margaret the Virgin); in the case of two of the three male saints, Thomas Becket and Saint Nicholas, special attention is paid to the saints' mothers.

Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental

The town of Santa Catalina got its name after the supposedly miraculous image of the patron saint, Santa Catalina de Alejandria, installed in the community chapel.

Siquinalá

The town holds an annual festival on November 25, in honor of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Santa Catalina de Alejandria), which includes the election of a festival queen, games, sports, singing, and a fair.

St Katherine Coleman

The church was dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria.

St Paul's Church, Stamford

The main part of the present building was originally a chapel dedicated to St Katherine and the religious guild of St Katherine (refounded in 1480 by Alderman William Browne, founder of Browne's Hospital) met for its services in the chapel.

St. Catharine, Missouri

The community was founded in 1856, and is not named for Catherine of Alexandria, but instead for Mrs. Catherine Elliot, by her husband, William Elliot.

St. Catherine Band Club

In the first week of September, 2005, the band celebrated the 1,700 year anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Catherine V.M., the patron saint of Zurrieq.

Star Over Bethlehem

There are fourteen people, among them a woman carrying a wheel (Saint Catherine) and a man carrying a gridiron (St Lawrence).

Strachocina

At the border of the village there is a parish church of St. Catharina from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries.

Święta Katarzyna, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Buildings of interest include the fortified church of Saint Catherine, which dates to at least 1257, and has been rebuilt on several occasions, including in 1720 and after the Second World War.

Władysław III of Poland

He became a knight of Saint Catharine of Mount Sinai (O Cavaleiro de Santa Catarina) and then he settled on Madeira.


Holt, Wiltshire

The Church of England parish church of Saint Katharine was rebuilt in 1891 to designs by the Gothic Revival architect C.E. Ponting of Marlborough.

Liturgical drama

About the beginning of the twelfth century we hear of a play of St. Catherine performed at Dunstable by Geoffroy de Gorham, later abbot of St. Albans, and a passage in Fitzstephen's "Life of Becket" shows that such plays were common in London about 1170.

Saints, Luton

Its name is taken from the group of streets off Montrose Avenue that are named after early Christian saints such St Ethelbert, St Catherine and St Augustine.

St. Bartholomew's Church, Berchtesgaden

The altars in the apses are consecrated to Saint Bartholomew, Saint Catherine, and Saint James respectively.

St. George's Basilica, Malta

Other works of art include a painting depicting Saint Catherine of Alexandria and an other St Lazarus, both by Giuseppe D'Arena.

Vittskövle Church

In Saint Annes chapel there are the symbols of the evangelists, as well as the four female medieval saints: Saint Barbara, Saint Ursula, Saint Gertrude and Saint Catherine.