St Catherine of Alexandria Collectible Keepsake
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Product Details
Manufacturer: StainedGlassPhotographyBrand: Stained Glass Designs OrnamentS
Edition: Kitchen
Publisher: StainedGlassPhotography
Studio: StainedGlassPhotography
Music Label: StainedGlassPhotography
Product features:
- From a beautiful stained glass design by William Morris
- Image has been applied to fine white porcelain
- Measures 3 1/2" high by 2 1/2" wide
- Complete with red ribbon ready to hang
Description of St Catherine of Alexandria Collectible Keepsake
A beautiful depiction of St Catherine of Alexandria, the patron saint of teachers, on white porcelain. The design is from an original stained glass window from around 1883 by William Morris. The image shows St Catherine looking very poised with a book and a sword. The ornament can not only be used to decorate a Christmas tree but also as an all-year-round keepsake, perhaps framed in a shadow-box or even used as a pendant. An ideal gift item for a teacher.Tools and Hardware Reviews of St Catherine of Alexandria Collectible Keepsake
Customer Review: The Beauty of the Truth: One of the 14 Holy Helpers
Summary: 5 Stars
Saint Catherine was a young Christian woman of noble birth and thus quite well-educated, when at the age of eighteen she presented herself to Emperor Maximinus Daia who was carrying out a persecution of the Christians. She admonished him for his cruelty and demanded that he cease the persecutions. Astounded and insulted at the young woman's audacity, but lacking the skills necessary to debate with her, Maximinus detained her in his palace and called for his scholars to try to trip her up in her beliefs either to make her apostatize against Christianity or commit a heresy against the Roman religion so that she could be put to death. Contrary to what Maximinus expected, she managed to convert many of his scholars with her eloquence and knowledge of both religion and science. Maximinus was so outraged he had them put to death and Catherine scourged and put in prison. His empress however, heard of the extraordinary young woman and stole secretly into the prison in the company of the general Porphyry. They listened to Catherine, were converted and baptized, but were executed by Maximinus when he discovered what had happened. Maximinus ordered Catherine to be broken on the wheel, yet at her touch it was miraculously destroyed. Seeing no alternative, Maximinus ordered her beheaded. According to legend, her body was carried to Mount Sinai by angels where a monastery and church were later built by the order of the Emperor Justinian. Interestingly enough, the site where Catherine's body was found is also believed to be the site of the burning bush seen by Moses.
Saint Catherine has been ranked with Saints Margaret and Barbara as one of the "fourteen most helpful saints in Heaven." In several dioceses in France her feast day was regarded as a Holy Day of Obligation up until the seventeenth century. Numerous churches are dedicated to her, and at one time her statue decorated almost every church in Europe and Africa. As Saint Nicholas of Myra was the patron of young men and students, Saint Catherine became the female counterpart, the patron of young women. The spiked wheel that she destroyed with a touch became her symbol and as such mechanics and wheelwrights have called her their patron. Because she triumphed also in the sciences, confounding even the philosophers of Maximinus, her intercession is sought by theologians, orators, and philosophers. It is even thought that she was the saint that had appeared to Joan of Arc.
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