# La Légende Dorée by Jacques de Voragine

The story of Saint Catherine has come down to us through Jacques de Voragine's Légende Dorée, written between 1260 and 1266.

Le miracle de la roue, hagiographie de sainte Catherine,
Mâcon, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 003,
La légende dorée, Jacques de Voragine, f. 71

> "I am Catherine, daughter of King Coste [...] Brought up from childhood in the liberal arts, I disdained all that to take refuge with my Lord Jesus Christ [...]"

> "A young girl of incomparable wisdom and wit, who refutes all scholars, and claims that all our gods are nothing but demons."