Catherine of Alexandria by Raphael, c. 1507Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine is a Christian saint and martyr who is claimed to have been a noted scholar in the early 4th century. She is believed to have been born in Alexandria of a noble family and converted to Christianity through a vision.
In the beginning of the fifteenth century, St. Catherine's was one of the voices heard by St. Joan of Arc.
Considered to be the Patron Saint of:
apologists; craftsmen who work with a wheel (potters, spinners, etc.); archivists; attornies; barristers; dying people; educators; girls; jurists; knife grinders; knife sharpeners; lawyers; librarians; libraries; maidens; mechanics; millers; nurses; old maids; philosophers; potters; preachers; scholars; schoolchildren; scribes; secretaries; spinners; spinsters; stenographers; students; tanners; teachers; theologians; turners; University of Paris; unmarried girls; wheelwrights
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