Author - - Louella Dougans
Title - A children's story about St. Katherine.
"In the early days of Amarr's glorious return to space, a transport ship carrying many people on its way to a mining station in an asteroid belt, suffered engine trouble, and drifted into the asteroids.
At the same time, a solar flare a few days previously meant that radio navigation beacons were unreliable.
On the mining station, people were worried about the transport, but they did not know how they would be able to rescue them without the beacons to guide them. Then one of the station pilots, a True Amarr called Katherine, said that they would fly a ship and rescue them, trusting God to guide her. So she painted the Word on the nose of her ship, where the navcom was, and set off.
Though there were many dangerous asteroids between the station and the transport, Katherine was able to pilot her ship safely through, because the Word protected it, and she was able to reach the stricken transport, and take the people onboard off.
Several of the people onboard were slaves, and were so Amazed at her compassion and bravery, that they spontaneously converted to the Faith, such was the effect of seeing the Word written on the spaceship that rescued them.
For this, Katherine was eventually made a saint, the patron saint of stranded space travelers."
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