Catherine Wheel
Named for the martyr St. Catherine, whose famed monastery sit on Mt. Sinai. Allegedly she was to be put to death a wheel by burning, which miraculously turned into flowers instead of flames.
Matt Ruff's trilogy WATER GAS &* ELECTRIC features as one of its three main characters the daughter of the Mother Superior of the purple-clad Catholic order of lesbian, child-bearing nuns, the Order of St. Catherine of the Burning Wheel.
If you haven't read WG&E, go out. Pick it up. Read it. Wait until you meet "29 Names for Snow". Or the "Eager Beaver".
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Pedicat pueros tribas Philaenis...
=AD Martial, Epigrams VII:70
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