St. Catherine icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5

St. Catherine icon (1) Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5Orthodox icon of Saint Catherine, Katherine (1), with scenes of her life. Copy of an icon of 13 cent., St Catherine Monastery, Sinai Egypt. Commemorated November 25th. The Holy Great Martyr Catherine was the daughter of Constants, the governor of Alexandrian Egypt during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305 313). Young men from the most worthy families of the empire sought the hand of the beautiful Catherine, but she was not interested in any of

She loved and respected her father

Saint Susanna the Myrrh-Bearer was one of the group of eight women identified in the New Testament that are called the myrrh bearing women

there is no better way to show to the unbelievers and idolaters that Christ is the true God

The holy relics of St Luke were taken from Constantinople and brought to Padua

in her youth became the wife of Igor

His face shone like the face of an angel

The old slippers are cut up

During this time St Melania continued to humble her flesh by strict fasting

Mount Athos

in the city of Antioch of Pisidia (southern Asia Minor)

the Emperor repeated his proposal of marriage

and raised the dead