Saint Catherine Delivered from the Wheel Date: 1375/1400 Artist: Northern Spanish
According to her legend, she was a beautiful and learned Christian noblewoman who lived in Roman Egypt in the early 4th century CE. She was such a brilliant speaker that she handily defeated a group of pagan philosophers in a public debate, which so incensed the local magistrates that they condemned her to death. The means chosen for her execution was a monstrous machine incorporating a huge spiked wheel. However, rather than killing her, the device broke apart and released her. The outraged authorities subsequently had her beheaded.
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Photo credit: © Carlo Bollo / Alamy / Afripics
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