Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie, s'agenouille dans la prière pendant qu'elle attend sa décapitation. Détail de l'avant-dernier panneau en fresque médiévale dans l'Ulmer Münster ou Minster, la cathédrale d'Ulm, Bade-Wurtemberg, Allemagne. Sainte Catherine était un martyr vierge chrétien de 300s et le cycle de fresque raconte l'histoire de sa vie et de sa mort, sur les ordres de l'empereur romain Maxentius.
2000 x 3008 px | 16,9 x 25,5 cm | 6,7 x 10 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
7 juillet 2006
Lieu:
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany: early Christian virgin martyr, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, kneels in prayer as she waits calmly to be beheaded on the orders of Roman Emperor Maxentius. In a worn medieval fresco, the penultimate panel of a series relating the Legend of St Catherine on an interior wall of the Ulmer Münster (Ulm Minster or Cathedral), the captive martyred saint is depicted wearing a crown but with her hands shackled. Behind her, but out of this view, her executioner prepares to deliver the fatal blow with his broadsword. St Catherine (or Katherine) of Alexandria was the subject of a thriving religious cult in the medieval era. According to her legend, she died in the early 4th century in Alexandria, Egypt. She became a Christian aged 14 and converted many hundreds of people to Christianity before her death aged about 18. Emperor Maxentius ordered her execution after she rebuked him for his cruelty and after she won a debate with 50 pagan philosophers and orators who tried to make her refute her Christian arguments. The legend tells how she was tortured in prison, fed by a dove from heaven and had her wounds tended by angels. Two hundred people who visited her became Christian converts, but were then martyred by Maxentius. When she refused his attempt to win her over by marrying her, he condemned her to death on a spiked breaking wheel, but it shattered when she touched it. Finally, he ordered her beheading. D1267.B5121