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Maxentius Unable To Exile
Maxentius was unable to defeat her rhetorically or intimidate her into giving up her faith, so he ordered her to be tortured and imprisoned.
St. Catherine didn’t abandon her faith, despite the torture that she went through.
When the word was out that St. Catherine was arrested over 200 people came and visited her in prison.
After St. Catherine was imprisoned, Maxentius had made one more attempt to persuade St. Catherine to abandon her faith and he had proposed to her. But Catherine refused and said “that she was married to Christ and her virginity was dedicated to him.”
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