He is my lover, my shepherd, and my husband." Then the provost of the city of Alexandria, whose name was Chursates, commanded to be made four wheels furnished with very sharp iron spikes, in order that upon these wheels the blessed Catherine should die a miserable and a cruel death.

But an angel broke the machine, and with such violence that the parts of it flying asunder killed a great number of the Gentiles.

And the empress, who beheld these things from the top of her tower, came down and reproached the emperor for his cruelty.

Full of wrath, Maxentius commanded the empress to sacrifice; and when she refused, he commanded her breasts to be torn out and her head to be cut off.

And while she was being taken to the torturer, Catherine exhorted her, saying: "Go, rejoice, queen beloved of God, for to-day thou shalt exchange for a perishable kingdom an everlasting empire, and a mortal husband for an immortal lover." And the empress was taken to suffer death outside the walls.
Porphyrius carried away the body and had it buried reverently as that of a servant of Jesus Christ.