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St. Catherine of Alexandria - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CATHERIN.HTM

From the tenth century onwards veneration for St. Catherine of Alexandria[1] has been widespread in the Church of the East, and from the time of the Crusades this saint has been popular in the West, where many churches have been dedicated to her and her feast day kept with great solemnity, sometimes as a holy-day of obligation.

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Catherine, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/ca/CathrinSt.html

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4th cent.?, Alexandrian virgin martyr. Nothing certain is known of her life, and in 1969 her name was dropped from the liturgical calendar. According to tradition she was learned. She was condemned to die on the wheel and was saved by a miracle, but was later beheaded.

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Biography: Catherine of Alexandria, martyr (25 Nov 310) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/11/25.html

The story of Catherine of Alexandria has caught the popular imagination of many generations (she is, for example, one of the personages from whom Joan of Arc claimed to receive regular visits and messages), although most scholars judge it to be simply a work of fiction with no historical basis. No references to her can be traced earlier than the ninth (or possibly the eighth) century.

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Catherine of Alexandria - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintc01.htm

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Patron Saint Index profile of Catherine of Alexandria; illustrated. Also known as Katherine of Alexandria. Apocryphal. Nobility. Learned in science and oratory. Converted to Christianity after receiving a vision. When she was 18 years old, during the persecution of Maximus, she offered to debate the pagan philosophers. Many were converted by her arguments, and immediately martyred.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Catherine of Alexandria - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03445a.htm

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A virgin and martyr whose feast is celebrated in the Latin Church and in the various Oriental churches on 25 November, and who for almost six centuries was the object of a very popular devotion.

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