Name
Catherine/Aikaterina, martyr of Alexandria
Saint ID
S00765
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Converts
| ID | Title | E01271 | The church of Panagia Drosiani on the island of Naxos (Aegean Islands) houses labelled pre-iconoclastic paintings of saints, datable to the 7th/8th c.: *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physician martyrs of Syria, S00385) *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033); possibly *Solomon (Old Testament king of Israel, S00270); *John the Baptist (S00020); just possibly *Catherine (martyr of Alexandria, S00765); possibly *George (soldier and martyr, S00259); and *Ioulianos/Julianus (possibly the martyr of Cilicia, buried at Antioch or in Egypt, S00305). | E03936 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 24 November *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), bishop Eusebios (an unidentified figure), *Merkourios (soldier and martyr of Caesarea of Cappadocia, S01323), *Micah (the Old Testament prophet, S01236), and *Catherine (martyr of Alexandria, S00765). | E03937 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 25 November *Peter (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247) and the martyrdom of *Catherine (martyr of Alexandria, S00765). | E07797 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Catherine/Aikaterina (martyr of Alexandria, S00765) recounts the marvellous tale of a young woman who defied the emperor Maxentius, defeated the finest orators of the realm in a public contest of knowledge, escaped being tortured on a giant wheel and was finally martyred gloriously. Written probably in the 6th/8th c., possibly at 'St Catherine's' monastery on Mount Sinai. | E08315 | 35 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission. |
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