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St. Agatha

Feast 5 February

Virgin martyr of Catania. Her name is in the Roman Canon.

St. Agatha

Sacred art

Statues and images

The portrait kept with St. Agatha is the image this library has of Agatha. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

Tortured under Decius. Patroness of Sicily, of nurses, of those with breast disease. The Church kept her name in the Mass because the early Church would not forget a girl who would not marry a prefect.