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Chapel of Saint Catherine
Centre of the altarpiece
Saint Catherine of Alexandria,
virgin and martyr Oil on canvas
of the disciple of Jeronimo Jacinto de Espinosa
(Cocentaina 1600 – Valencia 1680),
Vicente Salvador.
Saint Catherine was born in a noble family in Alexandria (Egypt). She suffered some torments and publicly contradicted the mistakes of the pagan philosophers. In the past, she was patron saint of the Philosophy students and teachers. She is the patron saint of the watchmakers due to she was tortured with the toothed wheel (“Catherine wheel”). She was beheaded by order of the emperor Maxentius in the year 307. Her feast day is celebrated in many places on 25th November.
Attic of the altarpiece
Saint Nicholas, Bishop Oil on canvas
by unknown author.
Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (Turkey) in the 4th century. His relics were moved to Bari (Italy) in the year 1087. Patron saint of Russia and Lorraine (France). His feast day is celebrated on 6th December.
