CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
Catherine is the patron of philosophers, fifty of whom she converted from paganism to Christianity ; they were all burnt, she was tortured on a spiked wheel, then beheaded
Picture No
10149482
Media ID
47339515
Size
3378px x 5202px
(17.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Engraving after Simone Memmi, fresco at Pisa ; reproduced in the Century magazine 1889
Date
3rd century
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