Catharine Theot, a religious fanatic, born in Avranches; gave herself out as the Mother of God; appeared in Paris in 1794, and declared Robespierre a second John the Baptist and forerunner of the Word; the Committee of Public Safety had her arrested and guillotined.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Catharine Parr * Cathay