Category talk:Saint Catherine chapels by country

Category:Saint Catherine

There are multiple saints named Catherine. Therefore, this category and certain others that reference a nonspecific "Saint Catherine" should be either renamed to reflect a specific saint or changed into disambiguation pages. Below is a list of the categories I think should be changed. If everything in an individual category is for only one specific saint, then the category should be renamed to specify which one.

Note: I recategorized Category:Saint Catherine churches under churches by name instead of churches by patron saint, as in done with Category:Saint Bernard churches and Category:Saint Julian churches, but maybe those should be disambiguation pages.

Here is the list of categories that I think need action:

Categories that have been deleted or resolved

--Auntof6 (talk) 01:36, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We have the same issue in a number of places. I tried to disambiguate the contents of Category:Saint Vincent churches recently so we could get rid of it, but I couldn't figure them all out. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:43, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Anything that has already been subdivided by actual saint, like Category:Saint Catherine churches in Egypt, I'm deleting as redundant. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:18, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Themightyquill: Category:Saint Catherine churches in Hérault now contains only a single category for a specific saint. Would you delete this one, too? --Auntof6 (talk) 06:06, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6: Done. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:30, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Themightyquill: Oops, I should have finished checking before I asked for that one: here are a couple more:

Thanks for the other two you just deleted! --Auntof6 (talk) 09:55, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fully support making this a disambiguation cat once the contents have been sorted. I just moved a St. Catherine that was created for a certain chapel in Budapest; I’ll make the redirect that was left behind point here instead.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 06:21, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We might never get all the content sorted. We could make it a disambiguation cat and then work on recategorizing everything we can. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:50, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Started to disentangle it, see how far I'll get. Joostik (talk) 17:56, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Joostik: Thanks. To help the rest of us, can you say what criteria you're using to determine which Catherine is meant? For example, how did you know in the case of this file? --Auntof6 (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Don't remember the precise steps I followed, but it's about Saint Catherine Day celebrations in Czechia, which by all accounts is about Catherine of Alexandria. In general, consider the iconography of any particular depiction. Attributes, dress, age, such things. I also had to google some churches to check the dedication. Also the age of some churches or depictions, and the time the saints lived. Some saints are pretty locally venerated, which gives you an indication on how to search. Joostik (talk) 18:53, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, in Orthodox churches Saint Catherine almost always means Catherine of Alexandria, but I'd hesitate to just go from that assumption.Joostik (talk) 19:06, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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