Saint Agatha
Saint Agatha is a Christian saint venerated as the patron of rape victims, breast cancer patients, wet nurses, and bellfounders. She is considered a powerful intercessor against fires, with her protection first attributed when an eruption of Mount Etna was stilled the year after her death. She is the patron saint of multiple regions including Malta, San Marino, Catania, and various other locations, and her feast day is celebrated on 5 February.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 231 CE
- Attested period
- 231 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Her patronage of San Marino was established on 5 February 1740 by Pope Clement XII; her intercession reportedly saved Malta from Turkish invasion in 1551.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Eutychia, Saint Ambrose, Saint John the Baptist, Saints Francis and Catherine, Saint Januarius, Saint Mark the Evangelist, San Gennaro, Our Lady of the Hens, Saints Peter and Paul
- allied with
- Lucy
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Saint Agatha is often depicted iconographically carrying her excised breasts on a platter, as in Bernardino Luini's Saint Agatha (1510–1515) in the Galleria Borghese, Rome”
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“While there, St. Agatha came to Lucy in a dream and told her that because of her faith, her mother would be cured and that Lucy would be the glory of Syracuse, as she was of Catania.”
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“Festival of Saint Agatha”
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