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About St. Catherine of Alexandria
3rd or 4th century, traditional – c. 305, traditional · Feast November 25 · Virgin / Martyr
Legendary virgin martyr of Alexandria, said to have refuted fifty pagan philosophers in debate before being broken on a wheel and beheaded under Maxentius c. 305. One of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages, patron of philosophers, students, and unmarried women; one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
St. Catherine of Alexandria is the patron saint of Librarians, Lawyers, Philosophers, Students, Unmarried Women, Wheelwrights and Apologists.
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