Today is the feast of St. Agatha, of Sicily, Virgin, Martyr. "Every year on February 4 and 5, the men of Catania pull her relics, housed in a bejeweled life-sized effigy through the streets of ...

St. Agatha was a young woman who was martyred in Sicily more than 1,700 years ago during the persecution of Decius. Susan Klemond Blogs St. Agatha, the Early Church Martyr Who Tradition Says Was ...

Agatha was born in Catania, Sicily, in southern Italy, around the year 230. Like many women of her time, she decided to consecrate her life to Jesus Christ by remaining a virgin.

MOUNT Etna erupted a year after Saint Agatha’s death on 251 AD. The people of Catania, Sicily, were spared from torrents of burning sulphur and stones through her intercession. The people took ...

The Holy Virgin Martyr Agatha was the fifteen-year-old daughter of rich and respected Christian parents from the city of Palermo (formerly Panormos) in Sicily. During the persecution under the emperor ...

ROME LETTER: It is a chilly February evening in a packed Piazza Stesicoro, in the heart of Catania, Sicily. Bunches of balloons straining on their ropes, and stalls laden with an intriguing ...

Saint Agatha, patron saint of Catania, was a fifteen-year-old girl from a noble Sicilian family. She had dedicated her life to God and taken a vow of chastity. Agatha, alas, caught the eye of a Roman ...

The martyrdom of St. Agatha is a particularly gory tale, even by biblical standards. Around A.D. 250, the young Sicilian virgin refused the advances of the pagan prefect Quintianus. In retaliation ...

Lucy was born in 283 AD in Syracuse, Sicily, and was killed there in 303 AD during Roman persecution under the Emperor Diocletian. ... Lucy travelled with her mother to the tomb of Saint Agatha.

St. Agatha was a young woman who was martyred in Sicily more than 1,700 years ago during the persecution of Decius. Susan Klemond Blogs St. Agatha, Tormented and Imprisoned for the Lord ...