{"id":54,"date":"2024-11-25T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/25\/church-fathers-2024-11-25\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T22:41:00","slug":"church-fathers-2024-11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/25\/church-fathers-2024-11-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Fathers 2024-11-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Catherine the Great Martyr of Alexandria<\/h2>\n<div>Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine[a] (Greek: \u0391\u03af\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bd\u03b7) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around age 14, converted hundreds of people to Christianity, and was martyred around age 18. More than 1,100 years after Catherine&#8217;s martyrdom, Joan of Arc identified her as one of the saints who appeared to and counselled her.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsanidopoulos.com\/2013\/11\/saint-katherine-of-alexandria-as-model.html\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine as a Model for our Lives<\/a><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Mercurius the Great Martyr of Caesarea in Cappadocia<\/h2>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsanidopoulos.com\/2016\/11\/holy-great-martyr-mercurius-of-caesarea.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orthodox Christianity Then and Now<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine the Great Martyr of Alexandria Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine[a] (Greek: \u0391\u03af\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bd\u03b7) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}