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Hace 4 días · St. Catherine of Alexandria (287-305) was a Christian martyr beheaded in Egypt who is patroness of students, unmarried girls and apologists. Her feast day is Nov. 25. Catherine was born a pagan princess in Alexandria, Egypt, at the time known for its culture and learning.
Hace 2 días · One story tells of Saint Catherine being confronted by fifty pagan philosophers seeking to convert her, but instead converting all of them to Christianity through her eloquence. Another legend claimed that Saint Catherine had been a student of Athanasius of Alexandria.
Hace 5 días · St. Apollonia was a holy virgin who suffered martyrdom in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians in the early 3rd century. During festivities commemorating the founding of the Roman Empire, a mob began attacking Christians. The great Dionysius, then Bishop of Alexandria (247-265), related the sufferings of Apollonia:
Hace 4 días · Harold T. Davis confirms that “assiduous research has failed to identify Catherine with any historical personage” and has theorized that Catherine was an invention inspired to provide a counterpart to the story of the slightly later pagan philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria (c. AD 350-370 – March 415).
Hace 2 días · The empire was divided into three: the Antigonid dynasty controlled Greece; the Seleucid dynasty, who had their capitals at Antioch and Seleucia, controlled large areas of Asia Minor, Syria, and Mesopotamia; and the Ptolemaic dynasty controlled Egypt with Alexandria as its capital.
Hace 5 días · daughter Anastasia. son Alexis. Alexandra (born June 6, 1872, Darmstadt, Germany—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia) was the consort of the Russian emperor Nicholas II. Her misrule while the emperor was commanding the Russian forces during World War I precipitated the collapse of the imperial government in March 1917. Nicholas II and family.
Hace 3 días · Date accessed: 1 June, 2024. The publicity surrounding the German empire has not been good lately, to put it mildly. In August 2020, several hundred members of the far-right Reichsbürger (‘Reich Citizens’) group tried to storm the German parliament building in Berlin.
