Sculpture of St. Catherine of Alexandria

Abstract

The sculpture was created in the second half of the 18th century and it depicts St. Catherine, the patroness of Christian philosophers and universities, who belongs to the group of Fourteen Holy Helpers. The woman saint died a martyr's death at the beginning of the 4th century as she refused to follow the order of ceasar Maxentius - to make sacrifice to pagan gods. Unfortunately, research on furnishings of the St. Martin's church carried out so far, due to lack of archival records on the constructors, does not even try to determine a circle of potential authors of the reredoses and its sculptural decor. Certain stylistic features of the sculpture of St. Catherine of Alexandria, as well as other sculptures located in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus altar final, indicate the author of sculptural decoration of the high altar in the church of Saint Quirinus of Neuss in Łapsze Niżne.