Santa Caterina D'Alessandria, Padua
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is a small, Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church and convent located on via Cesare Battisti #245 in the city of Padua in the region of Veneto, Italy. History A church was present here by the 13th century. Catherine of Alexandria was considered one of the patron saints of the University of Padua. By the 14th century, a student college was founded here. A nobleman of Padua, Jacopo D'Arqua, endowed the construction in 1594. The parish was suppressed in 1610 and the college converted into an Augustinian monastery for nuns who tended to poor women who lived on the margins of society. Built with the typical layout of a thirteenth-century oratory, in the 17th century it was renovated and decorated in Baroque style. A baptismal font used to baptize Livia and Gianvincenzo, children of Galileo Galilei was moved to Santa Sofia, Padua. The altar has polychrome marble with columns and a tympanum surmounted by sculptures, completed by a sculptor of the Bonazza fa ...
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