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A virgin and martyr whose feast is celebrated in the Latin Church and in the various Oriental churches on 25 November, and who for almost six centuries was the object of a very popular devotion.
Of noble birth and learned in the sciences, when only eighteen years old, Catherine presented herself to the Emperor Maximinus who was violently persecuting the Christians, upbraided him for his cruelty and endeavoured to prove how iniquitous was the worship of false gods. Astounded at the young girl's audacity, but incompetent to vie with her in point of learning the tyrant detained her in his palace and summoned numerous scholars whom he commanded to use all their skill in specious reasoning that thereby Catherine might be led to apostatize. But she emerged from the debate victorious. Several of her adversaries, conquered by her eloquence, declared themselves Christians and were at once put to death.
Furious at being baffled, Maximinus had Catherine scourged and then imprisoned. Meanwhile the empress, eager to see so extraordinary a young woman, went with Porphyry, the head of the troops, to visit her in her dungeon, when they in turn yielded to Catherine's exhortations, believed, were baptized, and immediately won the martyr's crown. Soon afterwards the saint, who far from forsaking her Faith, effected so many conversions, was condemned to die on the wheel, but, at her touch, this instrument of torture was miraculously destroyed. The emperor, enraged beyond control, then had her beheaded and angels carried her body to Mount Sinai where later a church and monastery were built in her honour. So far the Acts of St. Catherine. . .(The Catholic Encyclopedia)
d. 308, feastday: January 14
St. Anastasius Sinaita. A Greek ecclesiastical writer, b. at Alexandria in the first half of the seventh century; d. after 700. He was abbot of the monastery of Mt. Sinai, and so active an opponent of the Monophysites, Monothelites, and Jews that he was known as “the new Moses”. His principal work is the “Hodegos”, or “Guide”, written in defence of the Catholic Faith against the attacks of the aforementioned heretics. It was a popular manual of controversy among the medieval Greeks. The (154) “Questions and Answers on Various Theological matters” attributed to him are in part spurious. He also wrote a “Devout Introduction to the Hexaemeron” in twelve books, the first eleven of which have reached us only in a Latin translation.
Thomas J. Shahan, ed.
Transcribed by: W.S. French, Jr
This extract is cited May 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
Anastatius Sinaita, a presbyter and monk of Mt. Sinai, called by later Greek writers
"the New Moses" (Moses neos), lived towards the end of 7th century, as is clear
from the contents of his "Hodegus."
There is some doubt whether the two patriarchs of Antioch were ever monks of Sinai,
and whether the application of the epithet "Sinaita" to them has not arisen from
their being confounded with the third Anastasius. The "Hodegus" (hodegos), or
"Guide," above mentioned, a work against the Acephali, and other heretics who
recognized only one nature in the person of Christ, is ascribed by Nicephorus
and other writers to Anastasius I., patriarch of Antioch; but events are mentioned
in it which occurred long after his death. Others have thought that he was the
author of the work originally, but that it has been greatly interpolated. It was,
however, most probably the production of the third Anastasius. It was published
by Gretser in Greek and Latin, Ingolstadt, 1606. It is a loose, illogical rhapsody,
without any graces of style, and very inaccurate as to facts.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Climacus, Joannes (Ioannes ho Klimakos), surnamed the Learned (ho Skolastikos),
a Greek writer who lived in the sixth century of the Christian aera, whose original
name was Joannes, and who was called Climacus on account of a work written by
him, which was entitled Klimax. He took orders, and although the learned education
which he had received seemed to have destined him for a life among scholars, he
lived during forty years with monks of the most rude and illiterate description,
till he was chosen abbot of the convent on Mount Sinai, where he died at the age
of one hundred, or thereabouts, on the 30th of March. The year of his death is
uncertain, but it was probably in the beginning of the seventh century (A. D.
606?). The life of Climacus, written by a Greek monk of the name of Daniel, is
contained in "Bibliotheca Patrum Maxima", in the "Acta Sanctorum", ad 30 diem
Martii, in the editions of the works of Climacus, and in "Johannis Climaci, Johannis
Damasceni, et Johannis Eleemosynarii Vitae", &c., ed. Johannes Vicartius, Jesuita,
Tournai, 1664. Two works of Climacus, who was a fertile writer on religious subjects,
have been printed, viz. :
1. "Scala Paradisi" (Klimax), addressed to John, abbot of the monastery of Raithu,
which is divided into thirty chapters, and treats on the means of attaining the
highest possible degree of religious perfection. A Latin translation of this work
by Ambrosius, a Camaldulensian monk, was published at Venice. 1531, ibid. 1569,
Cologne, 1583, ibid. 1593, with an exposition of Dionysius, a Carthusian friar;
ibid. 1601. The Greek text, with a Latin translation and the Scholia of Elias,
archbishop of Creta, was published together with the work of Climacus cited below,
by Matthaeus Raderus, Paris, 1633. It is also contained, together with the previously
mentioned Scholia of Elias, in the different Bibliothecae Patrum. In some MSS.
this work has the title Plakes Pneumatikai, or Spiritual Tables.
2. "Liber ad Pastorem", of which a Latin translation was published by the Ambrosius
mentioned above, and was reprinted several times; the Greek text with a Latin
version was published, together with the "Scala Paradisi" and the Scholia of the
archbishop Elias, by Raderus mentioned above, Paris, 1633.
Both these works of Climacus were translated into modern Greek and
published by Maximus Margunius, bishop of Cerigo, Venice, 1590.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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