Picture No | 10149482 |
Date | 3rd century |
Description | CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA |
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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.
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Source | Engraving after Simone Memmi, fresco at Pisa ; reproduced in the Century magazine 1889 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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