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title: CATERINA SAINT OF ALEXANDRIA

subject date: 2004-11-10

caption: SAINT CATHERINE OF ALESSANDRIA (280/290 – circa 305) image depicting the Saint with the attributes of martyrdom: the palm and the cogwheel. According to tradition, she was the daughter of the Egyptian king Costa. Having been orphaned early, she saw the Madonna and Child in a dream, who put the ring on her finger, vowing her to virginity as the Bride of Christ. When the Roman emperor instituted great celebrations in his honor in Alexandria, she intervened, trying with profound arguments to convert the emperor himself; he was struck by her and wanting to marry her he summoned a group of rhetoricians to bring her back to the gods, but the opposite happened and the rhetoricians, converted to Christianity, were condemned to death; the saint at the torture of the cogwheel. From the suddenly cloudy sky a bolt of lightning flashed which broke the cogwheel, and the emperor was forced to have her beheaded: from her neck flowed not blood, but milk, symbol of her purity. Chromolithography, France circa 1900.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Egitto

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 41097

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Novecento

licence: RM

subject century: IV

subject epoch: Palocristiano

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 5308

file name: FSNgilardi_41097.jpg

keywords

Catherinedevotional imageSt. Catherine of AlexandriapalmSantinolittle imageVirgincleanlinesschastitymartyrwheelholyAlexandriamegalomartyrgreat martyrHoly auxiliariesorphanPrincessEgyptAfricaEarly ChristianFrancereligioncult of saints