The most famous miracle associated with St. Catherine of Alexandria involves her martyrdom. After protesting the persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Maxentius and defeating a number of scholars summoned by Maxentius to oppose her, Catherine was imprisoned and then sentenced to death. She was bound to a revolving wheel lined with iron spikes. As soon as she touched it, however, the wheel shattered and its blades flew off, impaling her executors. This torture device has since been known as the Catherine wheel.
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