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[[Image:Catherine of Alexandria.jpg|right|frame|St. Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie]]La Sainte [[Grande-Martyre]] et très sage Catherine (ou Aicatherine) a été le fille du gouverneur de ld'Alexandire Alexandrie d'EgypteÉgypte, Constus (ou Cestus), pendant le règne de l'empereur [[Maximinus ]] (305-313). Elle a reçu le [[martyre ]] en 305. Elle est commémoré le [[24 novembre ]] dans la [[tradition ]] slave, et le [[25 novembre ]] dans la tradition grecque (arabe, roumaine etc.).
==Vie==
Catherine prayed all night and was given to see the [[Theotokos|Most Holy Virgin]], who sent her divine Son to look upon the kneeling of Catherine before Them. But the Child turned his face away from her saying, that he was not able to look at her because she was ugly, of shabby lineage, beggarly and mindless like every person—not washed with the waters of holy [[Baptism]] and not sealed with the seal of the [[Holy Spirit]]. Catherine returned again to the elder deeply saddened. He lovingly received her, instructed her in the faith of Christ, admonished her to preserve her purity and integrity and to pray unceasingly; he then performed over her the [[Holy Mysteries|mystery/sacrament]] of holy baptism. And again Saint Catherine had a vision of the Mother of God with her Child. Now the Lord looked tenderly at her and gave her a ring—a wondrous gift of the heavenly Bridegroom.
[[Image:Catherine of Alexandria2.jpg|left|frame|Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie]]At this time the emperor Maximinus was himself in Alexandria for a [[paganismpaganisme|pagan]] feast day. Because of this, the feast was especially splendid and crowded. The cries of the sacrificial animals, the smoke and the smell of the sacrifices, the endless blazing of fires, and the bustling crowds at the arenas filled Alexandria. Human victims also were brought—because they consigned to death in the fire the confessors in Christ, those not recanting from him under torture. The saint's love for the Christian [[martyr]]s and her fervent desire to lighten their fate impelled Catherine to go to the pagan head-priest and ruler of the empire, the emperor-persecutor Maximinus.
Introducing herself, the saint confessed her faith in the one true God and with wisdom denounced the errors of the pagans. The beauty of the maiden captivated the emperor. In order to convince her and show the superiority of pagan wisdom, the emperor gave orders to gather 50 of the most learned men (rhetoricians) of the empire, but the saint got the better of the wise men, such that they themselves came to believe in Christ. Saint Catherine shielded the martyrs with the [[sign of the cross]], and they bravely accepted death for Christ and were burnt by order of the emperor.
