Feast Day: November 25
Born: 287, Alexandria, Egypt
Died: 305, Alexandria, Egypt
Major Shrine: Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Patron of: Aalsum, apologists, craftsmen who work with a wheel (potters, spinners, etc.), archivists, dying people, educators, girls, jurists, knife sharpeners, lawyers, librarians, libraries, maidens, mechanics, millers, nurses, philosophers, preachers, scholars, schoolchildren, scribes, secretaries, spinsters, stenographers, students, tanners, teachers, theologians, University of Paris, unmarried girls, haberdashers, wheelwrights