Catherine of Alexandria
25 November -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Martyrs, page 464
Tradition has it that Catherine was a girl of a noble family
who, because of her Christian faith, refused marriage with
the emperor as she was already a 'bride of Christ'. She is
said to have disputed with fifty philosophers whose job it
was to convince her of her error, and she proved superior in
argument to them all. She was then tortured by being
splayed on a wheel and finally beheaded.