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Title: Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D'Anvers, N., d. 1933
Subjects: Saints Saints Christian art and symbolism Painting
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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legend of St. Catherine ashis leading motive in the beautiful window in ChristchurchCathedral, Oxford, in memory of Edith Liddell, who died fivedays after her betrothal. The martyred maiden wearing hercrown occupies the central light, having on one side an angel,wit;h a flaming wheel at her feet, typical of suffering patientlyborne, and on the other, an angel typical of Divine deliverancefrom pain, crushing the wheel and extinguishing the flames;In the lower lights are represented the Dispute with thePhilosophers, the Dream in which the Blessed Virgin leadsthe maiden into the presence of Christ, and the Burial of themartyr by angels. In the choir of the same church is aquaint figure of very early date of St. Catherine, holding theremains of a sword in one hand, and a piece of a wheel in theother; and in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral is afine modern statue of the martyr treading on a dragon, andholding her sword and wheel. In England the f^te-day of St. Catherine, November 25,
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ST. EUPHEMIA 97 was long kept as a public holiday, and passages from her Acts used to be read in all Roman Catholic churches. Thereare, perhaps, more churches and chapels dedicated to her in theBritish Isles than to any other Saint, and her name has beengiven to many features of natural scenery, especially in theSouth of England. Near to Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight,alone are St. Catherines Point, St. Catherines Beacon, andSt. Catherines Downs; and a mile from Christchurch, Hants,is St. Catherines Hill. The Catherine Wheel was long afavourite sign with inn-keepers, although after the Reforma-tion, an attempt was made by Protestants to change it intothe Cat and Wheel. In fact, the romantic story of the moreor less apocryphal maiden has taken a remarkably stronghold on the popular imagination, and even in some EngHshchurches dedicated to St. Catherine, a banner bearing hereffigy leaning on her wheel is carried round in procession onthe great feast-days, although her example was scarcel

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