St. Catherine of Alexandria was a virgin martyr and philosopher of the fourth century. This depicts the miraculous destruction of her toture-wheels, as recounted in The Golden Legend:
And then a master warned and advised the king, being wood for anger, that he should make four wheels of iron, environed with sharp razors, cutting so that she might be horribly all detrenched and cut in that torment, so that he might fear the other Christian people by ensample of that cruel torment. And then was ordained that two wheels should turn against the other two by great force, so that they should break all that should be between the wheels, and then the blessed virgin prayed our Lord that he would break these engines to the praising of his name, and for to convert the people that were there. And anon as this blessed virgin was set in this torment, the angel of our Lord brake the wheels by so great force that it slew four thousand paynims.
The print is based on my ink drawings. It is about one and a half times larger than the originals.
Dimensions: 8” × 11”
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