Saint Mix-Up

 A friend gave me this book today. It is a book of Novenas by Barbara Calamari & Sandra DiPasqua.

I was looking at the Dominican Saints and decided to read Saint Catherine of Siena.  The biography is the life story I know and love, but the picture is wrong.  Instead of Catherine of Siena, it is Catherine of Alexandria.  Both Catherines are patronesses of the Order of Preachers but they are different saints.

Catherine of Alexandria was martyred.  At first, she was going to be tortured and then put to death by the wheel. 

It is a horrible death but when she touched the wheel, it broke apart.  BTW, because of this story, the wheel is called the Catherine Wheel.  Since she couldn't be killed on the wheel, she was beheaded.  Also, an interesting side-note is that St. Catherine of Alexandria was one of the saints that communicated with St. Joan of Arc.