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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Catherine of Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \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. \nThen he tried to seduce Catherine with an offer of a consort’s crown\, and \nwent off to inspect a camp. On his return he discovered that his wife and an \nofficer had gone to see Catherine out of curiosity and had both been converted\, \ntogether with two hundred soldiers of the guard. They accordingly were all slain \nand Catherine was sentenced to be killed on a spiked wheel. When she was \nplaced on it\, her bonds were miraculously loosed and the wheel broke\, its spikes \nflying off and killing many of 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. \nThe great monastery of Mount Sinai still claim the alleged relics of St \nCatherine\, in the care of the monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. \nArchbishop Falconio of Santa Severina said that the meaning of the “angels” is \nthat her body was carried by the monks of Sinai to their monastery. Tradition \nhas referred to the monastic life as “the angelic life”. This is still a current \nexpression in Eastern monasticism.
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