Saint Catherine's Day egg, sugar, lard or butter, and Caraway seeds. The custom of lighting a revolving pyrotechnic display (a 'Catherine Wheel firework') to celebrate the saint's feast day is assisted by the ready supply of such fireworks during the month of November, due to the secular celebration of Guy Fawkes Night earlier in the month. St. Catherine's taffy is a candy made by French Canadian girls to honor St. Catherine, the patron saint of unmarried women on her feast day. St. Catherine's Day is sometimes known in among French-Canadians as "taffy day," a day when marriage-age girls would make taffy for eligible
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew is a 1628 painting by Jusepe de Ribera. Ribera had been introduced to the realism of Caravaggio. "Saint Andrew" shows its major influence on him, particularly that artist's "Crucifixion of Saint Peter". The work was owned by Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera, Admiral of Castille, until it was inherited by his son Juan Gaspar Enríquez de Cabrera in 1647. It was later donated to the monastery of San Pascual in Madrid. After the French occupied Spain, the work came into the hands of Andrés del Peral around 1816. About two