Catharine, St., of Alexandria, a virgin who, in 307, suffered martyrdom after torture on the wheel, which has since borne her name; is represented in art as in a vision presented to Christ by His Mother as her sole husband, who gives her a ring. Festival, Nov. 25.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cath`ari, or Catharists * Catharine I.