(urth) The Katharine maid

Roy C. Lackey rclackey at stic.net
Thu Oct 26 12:24:39 PDT 2006


>>Roy Lackey: >The bogus Catholic Saint Catherine was obviously the 
>>inspiration for Holy
>>  >Katharine.
>>
>>b sharp: I don't understand the use of the "bogus" adjective but I 
>>think it is more
>>than just inspiration.
>
>Roy's use of "bogus" may simply have been referring to doubts about 
>the historical existence of Catherine of Alexandria.
>
>   -- Dan Rabin

Correct. The saint never existed and was removed from the canon in 1969.

-Roy




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