(urth) Catherine

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/24/2011 11:59 PM, larry miller wrote:
> Sorry I should have worded my post a little better.  In every instance
> I use the word Pelerines I should have used Mannea. Therefore maybe
> Mannea has a connection with the Atrium of Time.
>                                                     My guess as to
> helped her escape to the Atrium-the Cumaen, who surely knew of
> Severians destiny and sought to ensure his birth by hiding Catherine
> in the Atrium.
>                                                     What secret are you
> referring to?
>                                        It is not a fact that Catherine
> is the real St Katherine.  She just portrays her in the ceremonies.
>
>                         As to why Severian doesnt visit her after
> becoming Auturch?  Maybe he does and just doesnt write about it.  Or
> if she is indeed the woman dug up by Vodalus shes already dead by this
> point.


There is a theory that the Other Lords tried to kill Dorcas, putting her 
in a coma at Ouen's birth. An intervention in the opposite direction 
makes sense as part of that theory. But why the Cumaean?

The secret I refer to is the Atrium and Catherine as its refugee. Do you 
think she is dead?