In about 1366, Catherine experienced what she described in her letters as a " Mystical Marriage " with Jesus, later a popular subject in art as the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine.

Mystic Marriage of st Catherine.

Boston MFA. jpg |" The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine " by an unknown artist, c. 1340, in Boston.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena ( 1347-1380 ) by Giovanni di Paolo, ca.

This ritual is an enactment of the mystical journey that culminates with the Mystic Marriage and the consumption of a Cake of Light and a goblet of wine ( a process termed " communication ").

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine ( c. 1526-27 ), Correggio's most important contribution to the High Renaissance art, exhibits Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo's pronounced influence on his style.

* The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine ( 1510 – 15 )

* Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine ( mid-1520s )

* The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine ( 1585 – 1587 )

* Mystic Marriage of St Catherine ( c. 1501 – 1503 )

Works in the art gallery ( many of them are in the Tribune Room ) include Sassetta's Mystic Marriage of St. Francis, Botticelli's Autumn, Piero di Cosimo's Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, Raphael's Three Graces and Madonna of Loreto, Guercino's Pietà, Pierre Mignard's Portrait of Molière as well as four of Antoine Watteau's paintings and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Le concert champêtre.

Dominici, Michael, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist "), Sandro Botticelli (" Lamentation of Christ "), Fra Filippo Lippi (" The Annunciation "), Lorenzo Lotto (" The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine "), Raphael (" The Canigiani Holy Family ") (" Madonna della tenda "), (" Madonna Tempi "), Leonardo da Vinci (" Madonna of the Carnation "), Antonello da Messina (" Annunciata "), Titian (" Vanity ") (" Charles V "), Tintoretto (" Christ in the House of Mary and Martha "), Guido Reni (" The Assumption of the Virgin "), Luca Giordano (" A cynical philosopher "), Tiepolo (" The Adoration of the Kings "), Francesco Guardi (" Regatta on the Canale della Guidecca "), Canaletto (" Piazetta in Venice ") and others.

Image: Bergognone_007. jpg | Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Catherine of Siena ( London, National Gallery ; dalla Certosa di Pavia )

While primarily being an architect, of his great loves was drawing and he was especially well known for his extraordinary studies of antique buildings, as seen in The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine ( 1502 – 1503 ) in the Allen Memorial Art Museum.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena by Giovanni di Paolo, ca.

" From the early 14th century the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine first appears in hagiographical literature and, soon after, in art.

* Mary Magdalen de ' Pazzi, The Complete Works of Saint Mary Magdalen de ' Pazzi Carmelite and Mystic ( 1566 – 1607 ), 5 vols, translated by Gabriel Pausback, O. Carm., Fatima 1969-1973.

Mystic Wedding of St Catherine Virgin and Martyr ( 1501 ) Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna, Italy

He also worked outside of his mother-country, namely on the Certosa of Pavia and in Prato, where in 1503 he completed the Tabernacle of the Christmas Song, now in the City Museum ; in 1501 Lippi realized the Mystic Wedding of St. Catherine for the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.

* The opening scene of The Sopranos episode 38, " Amour Fou ", features mob wife Carmela Soprano and her daughter Meadow Soprano in an art museum, where ( among other topics ) they discuss Jusepe de Ribera's painting: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Catholic doctrine has always considered Matrimony to be a most holy state of life for those called to the married life ( Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica ; Saint Augustine On the Goods of Marriage ).

It was the first Latter-day Saint temple where the ordinance of Eternal Marriage was practiced.

Other important playwrights were Giménez, Joaquín " Quinito " Valverde Sanjuán ( Joaquín Valverde Durán's son ), Tomás Lopez Torregrosa ( San Antón and El santo de la Isidra Saint ", Isidra being one of the characters ) Fernández Caballero ( El dúo de la africana Duet from L ' Africaine, a reference to the opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer | Meyerbeer, El cabo primero Headman ", that is, the person in command, La viejecita Little Old Lady ", and Gigantes y cabezudos and cabezudos "; named after popular Spanish parade disguises ), Jerónimo Jiménez ( El baile de Luis Alonso Dance of Luis Alonso " and its sequel La boda de Luis Alonso Marriage of Luis Alonso ").

* Marriage of Saint Catherine, ( 1532-4, San Salvatore, Bologna )

His first documented painting was likely as at 15 years of age, a Marriage of Saint Catherine.

In Viadana, he painted two panels in tempera, depicting Saint Francis for the church of the Frati de ' Zoccoli, and the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine for San Pietro.

* 1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.

Catherine is very frequently depicted in art, especially in the late Middle Ages, which is also the time that the account of St. Catherine's Mystical Marriage makes its first literary appearance.

His prominent films include La Notte ( 1961 ) with Jeanne Moreau ; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ( 1963 ), Marriage Italian-Style ( 1964 ), A Special Day ( 1977 ) and Ready to Wear ( 1994 ) with Sophia Loren ; The 10th Victim ( 1965 ) with Ursula Andress ; A Place for Lovers ( 1968 ) with Faye Dunaway ; It Only Happens to Others ( 1971 ) and La cagna ( 1972 ) with Catherine Deneuve ; Stay As You Are ( 1978 ) with Nastassja Kinski ; City of Women ( 1980 ); and Dark Eyes.

* Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria ( 1493 ) Oil on panel, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence

His most important works can, however, identify a triptych housed in the castle of Camino, a " Madonna Enthroned " kept in the Sanctuary of Sacro Monte di Crea, another in " Madonna " in the church of St. John the Baptist to Alba and a " Marriage of St. Catherine " which adorns the church of Neviglie in the Langhe.

The house is said to contain two paintings by Rubens, The Marriage of St. Catherine and The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian.

* Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine ( 1466 ) -

* Marriage of St. Catherine ( 1514 – 1515 ) -

* The Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine ( 1521 ) -

In Piacenza is a St Sixtus ; in Berlin a Presentation in the Temple ; and in the communal gallery of Verona one of his masterpieces, the Marriage of St Catherine.

File: Krakow kosciol sw Katarzyny 20070930 1522. jpg | Saint Catherine Church in Kazimierz, founded by the King in 1363

Saint Catherine of Siena, T. O. S. D, ( 25 March 1347 in Siena – 29 April 1380 in Rome ) was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian.

The house of Saint Catherine in Siena

The Chapel of Saint Catherine with parts of her relic s in the Basilica of San Domenico in Siena

Sarcophagus of Saint Catherine beneath the High Altar of the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

File: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 096. jpg | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, " Saint Catherine of Siena ", circa 1746, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

* Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine

* EWTN Library: Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin

* Saint Catherine of Siena: Text with concordances and frequency list

The lowest point is at sea level, and the highest is on Mount Saint Catherine.

The monument to Catherine the Great | Catherine II in Saint Petersburg

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

* 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

She later testified that she experienced her first vision around 1424 at the age of 12 years, when she was out alone in a field and saw visions of figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.

In 1775, Atake Tynay Biy Uulu one of the leaders of Sarybagysh tribe established first diplomatic ties with the Russian Empire by sending his envoys to Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg.

Poets in medieval Iceland even treated Christian themes using the traditional repertoire of kennings complete with allusions to heathen myths and aristocratic epithets for saints: Þrúðr falda “ goddess of headdresses ” = “ Saint Catherine ” ( Kálfr Hallsson: Kátrínardrápa 4 ).

These included notable thinkers such as Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Hipparchus, Aedesia, Pappus, Hypatia, Aristarchus of Samos, and Saint Catherine.

In July 1461, Pius II canonized Saint Catherine of Siena, and in October of the same year he gained at first what appeared to be a brilliant success by inducing the new King of France, Louis XI, to abolish the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, by which the Pope's authority in France had been grievously impaired.

** In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.