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unusual facts about Saint Catherine of Alexandria



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.

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.


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S. Maria di Nazareth

In the nave the largest frescoes of the time are the work of the painter Lazzaro De Maestri of 1893, in the second altar of the right aisle of the painting The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Castellino Castello, in the presbytery and in the apse works Rocco Costa and Giuseppe Galeotti; in the chapel to the left of the nave there is a crucifix in wood of the 12th century from the former parish church of St. Nicolò.