Church of Saint Catherine, Late Gothic church in Šebrov-Kateřina, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Catherine is a small late Gothic building of coursed rubble stone, with a polygonal presbytery, a three-aisled hall nave under cross vaults, and a low prismatic tower whose lower four metres are stone and whose upper storey is timber. The presbytery and nave are separated by a triumphal arch.

The late Gothic church was built at the end of the 15th century, probably in two phases, with the presbytery finished before the nave; the work is linked to the Černohorský family of Boskovice. Catholic and Protestant priests alternated here, so the church was consecrated repeatedly, and red consecration crosses remain on the walls. Repairs funded by a public collection were completed in 1855, and the damaged vault was repaired in the 1920s.

Pilgrimages continue today: they are held in summer around the feast of Cyril and Methodius and in November on Saint Catherine's Day. A papal breve of 1733 granted indulgences to pilgrims visiting the church, and votive plaques recalled miracles and healings.

Regular services are held only on Saturdays, and in recent years the church has opened for the popular Night of Churches. It stands on a raised rocky promontory in the village of Svatá Kateřina, within the municipality of Šebrov-Kateřina, and is a subsidiary church of the Vranov u Brna parish.

The church stands on a raised rocky promontory where, by local legend, a pagan sacrificial stone once stood; tradition also holds that Cyril and Methodius stopped here in 861 on their way from Olomouc to Brno and raised a cross, on whose site the first wooden church was built.