The Katharine maid

Roy C. Lackey · 26 Oct 2006, 19:24 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:24:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Katharine maid
Message-ID: <001001c6f934$6529ed60$cb3ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

>>Roy Lackey: >The bogus Catholic Saint Catherine was obviously the 
>>inspiration for Holy
>>  >Katharine.
>>
>>b sharp: I don't understand the use of the "bogus" adjective but I 
>>think it is more
>>than just inspiration.
>
>Roy's use of "bogus" may simply have been referring to doubts about 
>the historical existence of Catherine of Alexandria.
>
>   -- Dan Rabin

Correct. The saint never existed and was removed from the canon in 1969.

-Roy

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