Chris Green wrote:Joseph: Your wheels look to me more like water wheels than torture wheels. To conform to the usually accepted hagiography, a wheel representing St Catherine should be broken, since she was said to have been condemned to be broken by the wheel but instead it broke and she was eventually beheaded.
Well, this was put together quickly, meaning I used the standard clip-art of a Catherine wheel, with the curved spikes, which appears in this form in numerous arms in various countries, all alluding to St. Catherine, as on the arms of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
I have no objection to showing it broken, although that would seem to be a specific reference to St. Catherine herself, rather than as an instrument of torture more generally. If the priest in question has a particular devotion to St. Catherine, that would make sense, but (it seems to me) not otherwise.