Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . changed to the love of heaven. In the sacristy of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle is aquaint old painting of St. Dorothea, with a basket of flowerson her knees and a bunch of roses in her right hand; and ananonymous engraving of her, dated 1418, is preserved in theBrussels Museum. In some devotional pictures, as in one byIsrael van Melen, she is introduced on one side of the EnthronedMadonna, or she kneels below, offering her basket of flowersto the Holy Child. In the so-called S. Gemignano Alta
Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . changed to the love of heaven. In the sacristy of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle is aquaint old painting of St. Dorothea, with a basket of flowerson her knees and a bunch of roses in her right hand; and ananonymous engraving of her, dated 1418, is preserved in theBrussels Museum. In some devotional pictures, as in one byIsrael van Melen, she is introduced on one side of the EnthronedMadonna, or she kneels below, offering her basket of flowersto the Holy Child. In the so-called S. Gemignano Altar-pieceby Francia, now in the Berlin Gallery, she stands, withSt. Catherine, in the centre of the principal scene; in a paint-ing by Carlo Dolci, in the Darmstadt Gallery, an angel isbringing her a basket of flowers; and in a fine picture byVan Dyck she holds a palm as well as her roses. TheMartyrdom of St. Dorothea is the subject of a dramatic com- * From the green fields of ParadiseRoses to the lawyer dost thou send,Where by him thou shalt be joinedWhen he, too, the reward of death hath ^ ^^ V •5! W(-1O o o O S o DPS >< a ^ MWH to Sto ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA 89 position at Brescia, by Jacopo Ligozzi, in which angels areintroduced hovering above the kneeling maiden, with garlandsof roses in their hands, whilst Fabricius and his attendantsare looking on. An extremely fine modern rendering of thelegend of the roses is that by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, inprivate possession, in which the angel approaches Theophiluswith a basket of flowers and fruit, as he stands watching theremoval of the dead body of the martyr. In spite of the great and widespread veneration in whichSt. Catherine of Alexandria is held, very little is really knownabout her. She is, however, supposed to have been of noble,some say of royal, birth, the daughter of Costis, son of Con-stantine Chlorus, the father of Constantino the Great, and tohave been one of the most learned women of her time, able
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