Today, 25 November, is the feast of ...
* Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr (?)
- as a beautiful and learned student, she debated with
fifty philosophers and converted them; in prison, she
converted the wife of the local tyrant, along with an
officer and two hundred of his troops; she was sentenced to
die by being placed on a spiked wheel, but the wheel broke,
killing many onlookers; she was finally beheaded, and milk-
like fluid flowed from her severed veins
- patron of maidens, women students, philosophers,
preachers, apologists, wheelwrights, millers and others,
her voice was one of the heavenly voices heard by St Joan
of Arc
* Mercurius, martyr (?)
- a soldier martyr, who appeared in visions through the
centuries, including at the death of Julian the Apostate
and (with St George and St Demetrius) at Antioch during the
First Crusade
* Moses, martyr (251)
- a correspondent of St Cyprian and an enemy of Novatianist
heretics, he died after eleven months and eleven days spent
in prison
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
3 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
fax: +44.117.929.7850
phone: +44.117.928.8168
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