Set of three photo refrigerator magnets, all depicting Saint Catharine of
Alexandria.
Pictured on the magnets are paintings by Raphael,
Carlo Crivelli and
Giuseppe Ribera.
Catharine is a Christian saint and martyr from the 4th century.
According to legend, Catherine was married to Christ by the Virgin Mary.
When she failed to persuade Roman Emperor Maxentius to stop persecuting
Christians, and rejected his romantic advances, she was imprisoned,
tortured on the breaking wheel and ultimately beheaded. During her
imprisonment she converted many pagans to Christianity. Angels
carried her body to Mt. Sinai, later the site of the St. Catherine
Monastery and a famous collection of early Christian artworks.
Her feast day is celebrated on November 24-25. She became the
patron saint of wheelwrights and mechanics, scientists, theologians and
philosophers. In some stories she became Joan of Arc's adviser.
Each magnet: 2-3/8" x 3-1/8" (6.04cm x 7.94_cm)
