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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Catherine of Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints2 \n◊◊◊ \nSince about the tenth century\, veneration of St Catherine of Alexandria \nhas been marked in the East\, but from the time of the Crusades until the 18th \ncentury her popularity was even greater in the West. Numerous churches were \ndedicated in her honor\, including the parish church of Gethsemani Abbey at \nNew Haven\, KY. She was venerated as patroness of maidens and women \nstudents of philosophers\, preachers and apologists. Adam of St Victor wrote a \npoem in her honor; hers was one of the heavenly voices heard by St Joan of Arc. \nBut not a single fact about her life or death has been established. \nIt is said in her Acts that she belonged to a patrician family of Alexandria \nand devoted herself to learned studies\, in the course of which she learned about \nChristianity. She was converted by a vision of Our Lady and the Holy Child. \nWhen Maxentius began persecuting Christians\, Catherine went to him and \nrebuked him for his tyranny. He could not answer her arguments against his \ngods\, so summoned fifty philosophers to oppose her. These confessed \nthemselves convinced by the learning of this Christian girl\, and were therefore \nburned to death by the infuriated emperor. Then he tried to seduce Catherine \nwith an offer of a consort’s crown\, and went off to inspect a camp. On his return \nhe discovered that his wife and an officer had gone to see Catherine out of \ncuriosity and had both been converted\, together with two hundred soldiers of \nthe guard. They accordingly were all slain and Catherine was sentenced to be \nkilled on a spiked wheel. When she was placed on it\, her bonds were \nmiraculously loosed and the wheel broke\, its spikes flying off and killing many \nof the onlookers. Then she was beheaded. \nAll the texts of the “acts” of Catherine state that her body was carried by \nangels to Mount Sinai\, where a church and monastery were afterwards built. In \n527 the Emperor Justinian built a monastery for hermits of the place\, and the \nbody of Catherine was said to have been taken there in the 8th or 9th century. \nThe monastery has borne her name since then. The great monastery of Mount \nSinai still claim the alleged relics of St Catherine\, in the care of the monks of the \nEastern Orthodox Church. Archbishop Falconio of Santa Severina said that the \nmeaning of the “angels” is that her body was carried by the monks of Sinai to \ntheir monastery. Tradition has referred to the monastic life as “the angelic life”. \nThis is still a current expression in Eastern monasticism.
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