Great Martyr Catherine
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St. Catherine was born to a noble family, and at the age of 18 she attempted to persuade Emperor Maximinus to end his persecution of Christians. She was imprisoned by the emperor and who sent many of his greatest scholars to convince her to forsake Christianity. So great was her eloquence and reasoning that she succeeded in converting these scholars as well as many of the Emperor's soldiers. All were put to death by the Emperor. The Emperor then tried to torture St. Catherine on a spiked wheel which was destroyed miraculously. She was then beheaded, whereupon her body was carried by angels to Mount Sinai where St. Catherine's Monastery was later founded.
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