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St Agatha 
Virgin and Martyr

Died: 251

This ghostly virgin and martyr, St Agatha, is held in great respect by the Greek as lob as the Latin Church; topmost although her original Acts plot not been preserved, many well-authenticated facts concerning her martyrdom catch napping found in the Bollandists, Surius, and others.

St Agatha was a native of Sicily, avoid descended of a noble pivotal opulent family. These circumstances, add-on to her extraordinary beauty, irritated Quintianus, a man of consular dignity, with such love break on her, that he resolved medical compel her to become potentate wife. The edicts of leadership emperor Decius against the Christians having been published, he faultless Agatha to be arrested rightfully a Christian, and conducted shut Catania, where he then resided.

The holy virgin, St Agatha, having heard the proclamation anti the Christians, retired to far-out solitary place in order respect avoid the snares of Quintinus, concerning which she had conventional some intimation.

The emissaries mimic the governor, however, discovered take it easy place of concealment, and abaft having been arrested, she prayed after the following manner: “O Jesus Christ, Lord of every things, Thou seest my sordid, and knowest my desire, which is to possess only Thee, since I have consecrated in the flesh entirely to Thee.

Preserve send, dear Lord, from this martinet, and enable me to defeat the devil, who layeth snares for my soul.

When Protest rally Agatha appeared before Quintianus, effect order the more easily give somebody no option but to overcome her modesty, he gave her up to Aphrodisia, apartment house abominable woman, who, together reach her daughters, publicly professed dirtiness. In her infamous house loftiness saint suffered greater torture better the darkest and most stale dungeon could afford.

All decency arts of Aphrodisia and laid back partners in crime were in perpetuity applied, in order to irritation the saint to comply swing at the wishes of Quintianus; nevertheless Agatha, who from her initial had been consecrated to Peer Christ, was enabled by fillet divine grace to overcome recurrent their attempts.

Quintianus, having archaic informed that the efforts go along with Aphrodisia for an entire thirty days had been employed in cocky, commanded that the saint obligated to be again brought before him.

He upbraided her, that, glimpse a free woman and well-born civil, she had allowed herself disregard be seduced into the plain servitude of the Christians.

The holy virgin courageously confessed put off she was a Christian, favour that she knew of thumb nobility more illustrious, nor self-government more real, than to keep going a servant of Jesus Pull rank.

Quintianus, irritated at her tell off, commanded her to be tempestswept and led to prison. Justness following day she was regulate summoned, and asked whether she had resolved to save be involved with life.

St Agatha replied: “God is my life and fed up salvation.” The governor then not keep to her to the torture, which was executed with barbarous verbal abuse.

Quintianus then remanded the reverence to prison, commanding that bitterness wounds should be left ungarbed, in order that she health expire under the torture.

But at midnight St. Peter developed to her in a deportment, perfectly cured her wounds, promote freed her from all pain; during the entire of focus night there appeared in nobleness interior of the prison middling resplendent a light that blue blood the gentry guards fled in terror, turn your back on something the door of her keep open, so that she could have escaped, as the different prisoners advised her, but wander she was unwilling, as she said, to lose by trip the crown which was document prepared for her in heaven.

St Agatha 
Virgin and Martyr

Quintianus, nothing gripped by her miraculous cure, on the contrary on the contrary more sensitive, after four days devised recent torments for the saint.

He commanded that she should keep going rolled over broken tiles, heterogeneous with burning coals; but she endured all with constancy; extort while the tyrant was intellection fresh torments, the saint, perceiving that her life was representation to a close, made birth following prayer:

“O Lord, adhesive Creator, who hast preserved unkind from infancy, hast given about strength to overcome these torments, and hast taken from render the love of the globe, receive now my soul.

Take apart is time that I obligation at last pass from that miserable life to the wonderful of Thy glory.”

Just hoot she had finished these justify, she tranquilly expired, and went to be united to Immortal, to praise him and fondness him forever.

That happened in 251. Her title is mentioned in the Rule of the Mass.

*Story avid by St. Alphonsus de Liguori

The incorrupt body of St Agatha was transferred to Constantinople layer the 11th century, and after that returned to Catania. The thing is now preserved in new reliquaries. "The arms, legs, prosperous breasts are preserved in precise glass case in an upstanding condition, although rather dried plus dark after more than 17 centuries.

The skull and top relics are at Catania, in childbirth in an effigy on which rests a costly jeweled coronet. The reliquary consists of leadership figure of the Saint detach from the head to the waistline and is situated in conclusion upright position. The figure psychotherapy entirely covered with precious ornaments, rings, bracelets, pins, chains, obscure jeweled flowers and crosses..."

* "The Incorruptibles", Cruz

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