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	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 16
		Aganus was abbot of Saint Gabriel's monastery at Airola, Campania, Italy, in the diocese of Saint Agatha dei Goti (Benedictines).
		Saint Pamphilus, demanded that the bodies be buried, he was tortured by being flayed alive and then burned to death when it was found he was a Christian.
		Saint Jerome said that Onesimus became a preacher of the Word and later a bishop, though probably not the Bishop Onesimus of Ephesus who was the third successor to Timothy, showed hospitality to Saint Ignatius of Antioch, and was stoned to death in Rome, as stated in the Roman Martyrology.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0216.htm (2798 words)

	St. Agatha Catholic Church - History
		Saint Agatha is recognized by the church as a Virgin and a Martyr.
		Agatha is the patron saint of Sicily, nurses, bakers, miners, jewellers, Alpine guides, and those suffering from breast cancer.
		The first eighty years of St. Agatha under the leadership and direction of the Benedictine fathers were remarkable for their commitment to growth and construction in the parish.
	www.stagatha.us /chapel.html (727 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Agatha
		Agatha thanked God for an end to her pain, and died.
		Agatha, her goodness coincides with her name and her way of life.
		from a homily on Saint Agatha by Saint Methodius of Sicily
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/sainta04.htm (490 words)

	The Golden Legend: The Life of Saint Agatha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Saint Agatha said: Thou sayst that they be gods because thy wife was such an one as was Venus, thy goddess, and thou thyself as Jupiter, which was an homicide and evil.
		Saint Agatha said: I marvel much that so wise a man is become such a fool, that thou sayest of them to be thy gods, whose life thou ne thy wife will follow.
		Saint Agatha answered: Nay, but reny thou thine idols which be of stones and of wood, and adore thy maker, that made heaven and earth, and if thou do not thou shalt be tormented in the perpetual fire in hell.
	www.catholic-forum.com /SAINTS/golden166.htm (1578 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 5
		Saint Heribert of Cologne held Adelaide in the highest respect and consulted her in all his difficulties (Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth, Walsh).
		Saint Gregory the Great, for example, took a church which the Goths used in Rome, and reconsecrated it to the saint.
		In a later period pictures of Saint Agatha carrying her severed breasts on a platter were mistaken as bread, which led to the practice of blessing bread on Saint Agatha's Day.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0205.htm (1777 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Agatha
		Although the martyrdom of St. Agatha is thus authenticated, and her veneration as a saint had even in antiquity spread beyond her native place, we still possess no reliable information concerning the details of her glorious death.
		According to them Agatha, daughter of a distinguished family and remarkable for her beauty of person, was persecuted by the Senator Quintianus with avowals of love.
		Catania honours St. Agatha as her patron saint, and throughout the region around Mt. Etna she is invoked against the eruptions of the volcano, as elsewhere against fire and lightning.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01203c.htm (804 words)

	Saint Agatha of Catania, Sicily - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Agatha, Saint, according to tradition, a noble Sicilian virgin of great beauty and wealth, who rejected the love of a Roman consul and as a result suffered cruel martyrdom.
		Whether Agatha ever lived and, if so, whether she died in the persecution of Christians conducted during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius (249-251) or that of Diocletian, 50 years later, is unknown.
		She is the patron saint of Malta and of Catania, Italy.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /saint_agatha_of_catania_sicily.htm (175 words)

	TIGERX.COM History: Roman Catholic Patron Saint Agatha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Born in Catania, Sicily, Agatha was a young, beautiful and wealthy Catholic, but she caught the eyes of Magistrate Quinctianus, who was well known for persecution of Christians.
		She was then tortured by fire, at that time there was a violent earthquake which was taken as a sign by her torturers who immediately ran.
		Agatha died with a prayer on her lips.
	www.tigerx.com /history/saints/agatha.htm (114 words)

	Agatha of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Agatha (died 251) is a Christian saint.
		Agatha was born at Catania and she was martyred in approximately 250.
		Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The martyrdom of Saint Agatha.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Agatha (465 words)

	Agatha, Saint - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		AGATHA, SAINT [Agatha, Saint], 3d cent., Sicilian virgin, martyred under Roman Emperor Decius.
		Rediscovering Saint Agatha and the Amazons within: new self-images for breast cancer survivors.
		Saints Praxedis and Prudentiana in The Golden Legend and The Stacions of Rome: Fragments from MS Lambeth Palace 72 and MS BL Additional 22283 (1).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-agatha-s1.html (264 words)

	Holidays and Festivals - Saints to St Augustine
		Cults have sprung up around many of the saints, and pilgrims may travel to the location of a saint's death or where miracles were supposed to have taken place.
		There are legends about many of the saints, often about miraculous ways in which they were unharmed by attempts at execution, and yet the executioners usually had their way in the end.
		Agatha is often portrayed as a virgin martyr carrying her severed breasts on a tray.
	www.shagtown.com /days/saints.html (782 words)

	Saint Agatha Medals
		Saint Agatha was a virgin woman, living circa 250 A. D., who rejected advances from a Roman senator.
		As she stayed in her prison cell, Saint Peter returned them with a “celestial ointment”.
		She is the patron saint of nurses and of breast cancer.
	www.inhisname.com /JewelryPages/saint_agatha.htm (69 words)

	St. Agatha Parish, Milton and Quincy, Massachusetts
		Agatha School is accepting applications for the 2007-2008 School year.
		The theme of the retreat was “Who Am I.” Masks were created from paper plates and Young people used these masks to help them understand in their “heart of hearts” who they really are and how God created them in his image and likeness.
		We strive to generate a climate that is permeated by the Gospel spirit, one that encourages teachers, students, and families to become one community of learners, and prepares us for our contribution to society in the future.
	www.stagathaparish.org /school (494 words)

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		Agatha achieved renown in the early Church for her noble victory.
		Agatha, the name of our saint, means "good." She was truly good, for she lived as a child of God.
		Saint Peter, we are told, gave you some solace and so you are invoked by nurses.
	www.livingwatercommunity.com /saiints/st_agatha.htm (551 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profiles: Saint Lucy
		Saint Agatha appeared to Lucy in a dream and told her that she would be martyred for Christ's sake.
		Saint Lucy was welcomed into Heaven by Jesus, whom she had loved so much that she had died for Him.
		Saint Lucy is invoked as the patron of eye ailments and of light, possibly because her name suggests 'light.' Sometimes, she is portrayed holding two eyes in a dish.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19971201/SAINTS/STLUCY.HTM (1465 words)

	February 5 Saints of the Day
		Agatha achieved renown in the early Church for her noble victory.
		Agatha, the name of our saint, means "good." She was truly good, for she lived as a child of God.
		Agatha, her goodness coincides with her name and her way of life.
	www.religion-cults.com /saints/february5.htm (395 words)

	Saint Agatha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Agatha, born in Sicily into a wealthy family,was martyred in Catania in the year 250.
		Agatha firmly resisted so Quintanus had her breasts mutilated and severed.
		She is the patron saint of breast cancer, breast disease, earthquakes and fire.
	www.saintsaj.org /st_agatha.html (102 words)

	Agatha of Sicily
		At which she made him this reproach: "Cruel tyrant, do you not blush to torture this part of my body, you that sucked the breasts of a woman yourself?" Agatha was allowed no medicines or bandages or food when she was sent to a dark dungeon.
		Her name is found in the litany of the saints and in all martyrologies: Greek and Latin.
		Lord God, Saint Agatha always pleased You by her chastity and in the end by her martyrdom.
	members.chello.nl /~l.de.bondt/SaintAgatha.htm (334 words)

	Sex and spirituality in 1500s Rome: Sebastiano del Piombo's martyrdom of Saint Agatha Art Bulletin, The - Find Articles
		Sebastiano del Piombo's Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (Fig.
		Thus, it has sometimes been implied that the repeated use of the naked body in religious imagery in the early sixteenth century was effectively a by-product of an evolutionary process of religious thought, a mixture of genres that, given the artistic progression of Renaissance into Counter-Reformation, was near inevitable.
		Saint Agatha was martyred in the town of Catania in Sicily in the mid-third century.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_88/ai_n16788656 (945 words)

	Biography: Lucy (13 Dec 304), and Agatha (5 Feb 290), martyrs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The early Roman lists of martyrs commemorate Lucy, virgin and martyr, on 13 December, and her name, with that of Agatha, appears in the Roman Liturgy as an example of those who have gone before us, in whose company we join in giving thanks and praise to God.
		Aside from this, little is known of her, except that she lived in Syracuse in Sicily, and probably died around 304.
		Agatha was from Catania in Sicily, and probably martyred in the late 200's.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/12/13.html (164 words)

	Maine Local Government - Town of Saint Agatha - Main Page
		Saint Agatha is a town in Aroostook County, incorporated on March 17, 1899 from a portion of Frenchville.
		Settled by Acadians, the name derives from the parish church that was established in 1890.
		Agatha was a martyred Sicilian saint of the third century, put to death for her Christian beliefs.
	www.maine.gov /local/aroostook/saint_agatha (105 words)

	Medieval Art: Text-Saints: Saint Agatha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Agatha said that neither wild beasts nor fire nor scourging would move her, she would remain the servant of Christ.
		Agatha was carried to a dungeon, but died of her wounds.
		Her tomb became a sacred spot to Christians, and, at a great eruption of Mount Etna, they took her silken veil from it, fixed it on a lance, and went forth to meet the lava, which ceased to flow at their approach, and the eruption ended.
	www.pitt.edu /~medart/texts/saints/Tabor/METAgatha.html (248 words)

	February 5 - Saint Agatha
		Saint Agatha's probably fictitious legend (the author of the Saint Report is not editorializing here--this is the opinion of Catholic scholars) was grisly enough to have assured her a permanent Sainthood regardless of the evidence.
		In the story, the beautiful and wealthy virgin Agatha, who from earliest childhood had dedicated her life to God, was pursued by a powerful man who threatened to expose her Christianity if she didn't submit.
		In iconography, Saint Agatha is often shown carrying her breasts on a platter, though later artists thought the breasts to be either bells or loaves of bread, leading to the custom of blessing bread on Saint Agatha's feast day and her patronage of bell makers.
	www.goatview.com /february5saintagatha.htm (204 words)

	Lives of the Saints, February 5, St. Agatha, The Martyrs of Japan
		Saint Agatha was born in Sicily of rich and noble parents, a child of benediction from the first, for she was promised to her parents before her birth, and consecrated from her earliest infancy to God.
		He smiled, identified himself as Saint Peter, and said: “It is in His name that you will be healed.” And when he disappeared, she saw that her wounds were healed and her flesh made whole.
		Saint Agatha gave herself without reserve to Jesus Christ; she followed Him in virginal purity, and then depended upon Him for protection.
	magnificat.ca /cal/engl/02-05.htm (979 words)

	Blood, Gender, and Power in Judaism and Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The divine power brought to these women by saints' relics was, in the end, considered much more desirable and important than the knowledge they had obtained in their society, and was quite likely esteemed over the theological education they were to receive in the convent.
		Some of her relics are considered to be in a church built by Saint Gregory; others were placed by Gregory at the monastery of St. Stephen at the Isle of Capri; still more were related to have been brought to Catania in the 12th century.
		Followers of Saint Agatha chose to focus on the disfiguring of her body and her unwavering strength of belief in Christ which allowed her to remain virginal and pure despite having her body invaded and disfigured by her captors.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Projects/Reln91/Power/Relicsmainpage.htm (1607 words)

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		Agatha (third century) was a Christian who refused to marry a Roman consul...
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	Saint Agatha's reliquary.
		Above this a series of eight translucid plates comment the historical phases of the reliquary: the weapons of the Aragons(that were reigning in that time in Sicily), of Catania, of the Pope, of two bishops purchasers and the images of Saint Catherine of "Alessandria" and of Saint "Lucia ".
		The bust of the reliquary of Saint Agatha, is now kept in the cathedral of Catania, and represents the only certain work of "Bartolo".
		The fortune criticism of this kind of jeweller is relatively modest; it goes back to the end of the nineteenth century, even thanks to the canon of "Castorina", librarian of the university of Catania that on the 24th of August 1877 wrote about the work a "Canon of Avignon".
	www.goldsmith.it /us/culturale/storia/sagata/sagata.html (306 words)

	Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani: Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her, part of an altarpiece
		Saint Lucy was martyred in 303, at the height of Diocletian's persecutions of the Christians, for proclaiming her faith and distributing her goods to the poor.
		These four scenes of her life include Saint Agatha appearing to Lucy in a vision and foretelling the healing of her mother; the distribution of her inheritance; her refusal to sacrifice to idols; and the failure of oxen to drag her to a brothel.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/iptg/hod_12.41.1-4.htm (308 words)

	Saint Agatha Maine Real Estate - Homes for Sale in Saint Agatha ME
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	www.realestate.com /local-homes/maine/Saint-Agatha.aspx (389 words)

	St. Agatha - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint except that she was martyred in Sicily during the persecution of Emperor Decius in 251.
		Legend has it that Agatha, like Agnes, was arrested as a Christian, tortured and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated.
		Still less welcome, probably, is the notion of that saint being the patroness of such varied professions as those of foundry workers, nurses, miners and Alpine guides.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1282 (356 words)

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