Let us praise Katherine the radiant bride of Christ, guardian of Sinai, our helper and supporter. By the power of the Spirit, she silenced the arrogance of the ungodly. Crowned as a martyr, she now implores great mercy for all.

Catherine of Alexandria was a virgin of great beauty and intellect, daughter of King Constus. She refused to marry the Emperor because she had received a wedding ring from the Lord Himself in a vision. When she successfully defended the faith against the arguments of fifty pagan philosophers who had been called in to convince her of the errors of Christianity, she was tortured on a wheel of spikes. An angel of God appeared and broke the wheel. After many tortures, she was beheaded with the sword at age eighteen in 310. Milk flowed from her body instead of blood. Her relics are preserved at the monastery named for her at Mount Sinai.

This icon is from St. Catherine's Monastery at Mt. Sinai and is 17th century Greek. Inscription is in Greek.

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