St. Catherine icon (4) Size in inches:3 X 5

St. Catherine icon (4) Size in inches:3 X 5Orthodox icon of Saint Catherine, Katherine (4). Copy of an icon of 17 cent., Byzantine Museum of Athens.. 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 them. She told her parents that she

Bishop of Lampsacus icon

which later produced such famous Fathers and teachers of the Church as Clement of Alexandria

he directed that their names to be placed in a special position in the church

and in his willingness to give himself up to every suffering for the sake of the Faith

and his exceptional oratorical gifts were made manifest through his many sermons and commentaries

crevices in the depths of the earth

but he made no complaint and endured every unpleasantness

He was given the name Porphyrios

About eighty survive

and in Mesopotamia

but the holy youths walked in the midst of the flames

Lazarus was also there (John 12:1-2