November 25
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Catherine of Alexandria

St. Catherine of Alexandria

virgin and martyr · † c. 305
Wisdom is better than jewels.
— Prov 8:11

A young learned woman of Alexandria who in a debate defeated fifty pagan philosophers – who, legend says, were converted. The emperor had her tortured on a wheel, which broke, and then beheaded. She is the patroness of students and philosophers.

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