Identifier: opencour_216181caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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hrist in a prayerbefore her execution, and he answ^ers her from out of a cloud withthese words: Come thou, my much beloved, come my bride! Thegate of heaven is open to thee. The dwelling of eternal peace isprepared for thee and awaits thy coming. The glorious hosts ofvirgins descend with great rejoicing to thee with a crown of vic-tory. Come therefore and be assured that I will graciously grantthee all those favors which thou askest. Yea I promise to extendall help, assistance and comfort which thou askest me also to thosewho in pious faith revere thy passion and will call on thee in dangerand extremity. I promise to them all these benefits and the grace ofheaven. According to the legend Mt. Sinai became the burial place ofSt. Catharines bodv. and Marius Sepet claims that the beginning 74 I 111-. ulKN ( iilKT of the public worship of St. Catharine dates from the discovery ofher tomb on Mt. Sinai in the ei.e^hth centurv. He says: The worship of Catharine spread very rapidlv amon£r the
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ST. cathauim: s L)1::LI\EK.\XCE.From Mielots yic de Stc. Catherine as revised and modernized by M. Sepel. Christians of the CJrient and in the whole Greek Church, whence itpenetrated into the Occident and was received also in the LatinChurch. This happened before the crusades, for the French Xa- ST. CATHARINE OF ALEXANDRIA. 675 tional Library contains two manuscripts of the old Latin legenddating- from the time of the first crusade. The crusades by en-couraging and facilitating pilgrimages to the holy places of theOrient, have undoubtedly contributed much to the spread of thefame and the worship of St. Catharine, whose relics rest in a mon-astery on Mt. Sinai. It is impossible to tell how old the legend of the mystic marriagemay be, but it seems sure that as soon as it appeared on record itspread with great rapidity and became very soon afterwards well-nigh the most popular of all legends. Its popularity kept at itsheight between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, and we maynot g

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