Talk:Catherine Wheel
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Does anyone know what's going on with Catherine Wheel? Still on hiatus? Broken up? New album (hopefully)?
The band is officially "parked," but frontman Rob Dickinson has a new album coming out called "Fresh Wine for the Horses," to be released in the U.S. on September 13, 2005.
Need to disambiguate or find/link the original meaning. I notice that catherine wheel (lowercase) is a disambiguation page. The wheel I'm thinking of is a breaking wheel.
A Catherine Wheel is also a bondage implement - a large wheel where the person gets tied to the spokes; traditionally it was a torture/execution/humiliation device where the executioner would break every bone in a person's body and weave them through the wheel for display.
"The usual account of Catherine's life and death represents her as beautiful, of noble birth, and of high intelligence. When the Roman Emperor Maximus was persecuting Christians, this 18-year-old woman is said to have rebuked him for his cruelty and attempted to prove to him the folly of worshipping false gods. Maximus called in some leading pagan scholars to refute her, hoping that they would induce her to apostatize. But the little saint stood her ground so well that even some of the emperor's scholars were converted to Christianity. Furious over his failure, the emperor then had the young woman scourged and imprisoned. His wife, the empress, fascinated by what she had heard of Catherine, went in the company of the emperor's generalissimo to visit her in jail. The empress and general were also converted to Christianity by her words. Maximus therefore ordered that Catherine be tortured to death on a spike-studded wheel. At her mere touch, the deadly wheel fell apart, so the ruler had her beheaded. Her body was transported (by angels, says the legend) to Mount Sinai in Arabia. There in 527 Greek monks built the monastery of St. Catherine, which is still functioning." - http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id455.htm
