School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0447
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- (continued from previous page)hearing this, ordered a wheel to be made, with four spikes on it, so as to give Saint Catherine a very painful death. But when Saint Catherine was placed on the wheel it broke to pieces. Some time afterwards, she was beheaded.On the panels of our altar there are three pictures. They show Saint Catherine standing by after the wheel was broken. A second picture shows Saint Catherine being beheaded. The third is a picture of Saint Catherine going up into heaven.(Mary. T. Larkin, Meelehan)
- St. Catherine's day was not observed as a holiday long ago only for the parishioners. The Bishop, and a lot of priests used to have High Mass, and a sermon on St. Catherine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Minton
- Gender
- Female
