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SAINT CATHERINE THE GREAT MARTYR, OF ALEXANDRIA – Saint Catherine of Alexandria was born during the third century. So great was St Catherine’s eloquence that the fifty orators assigned to debate her recognized their error and, as a body, asked for baptism, for which Maximinus condemned them all to death. The Saint was then subjected to torture on a specially-constructed spiked wheel, but an angel loosed her and miraculously smashed the wheel. Maximinus’ own wife and 200 soldiers, were moved to profess their faith in Christ and their yearning to be baptized. All of them were put to death. Finally Catherine herself was led outside the walls of Alexandria and, after a prayer of thanksgiving to God, was beheaded in the year 305.

Feast Day: 25th November