Agatha of Sicily (c. 231 – 251 AD) is a Christian saint. Her feast is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily...

nominalized form of ἀγαθή (agathḗ), i.e. the feminine form of the adjective ἀγαθός (agathós) "good". It was the name of St. Agatha of Sicily, a third-century...

Joseph of Cupertino, Our Lady of Loreto, Thérèse of Lisieux (The Little Flower) Bakers - Agatha of Sicily, Elizabeth of Hungary, Honorius of Amiens Bakers...

Lamborghini. It is named after Saint Agatha of Sicily. From the industry it is internationally known for hosting the headquarters of Lamborghini, which emerged...

but similar concepts were used in ancient Rome. Christian martyrs Agatha of Sicily and Saint Barbara both had their breasts torn off as torture before...

with Agatha of Sicily, Agnes of Rome, Cecilia of Rome, and Catherine of Alexandria. The oldest record of her story comes from the fifth-century Acts of the...

Festival of Saint Agatha (Italian: La festa di sant'Agata) (Sicilian: A fest' 'i sant'Àjita) is the most important religious festival of Catania, Sicily, commemorating...

titular church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the martyr Agatha of Sicily and the home of the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata’s (Stigmatines) General Curia...

putatively killed 15 or the 28 nuns. The complex is dedicated the St Agatha of Sicily, patron of Catania and to whom over a half-dozen churches in town are also...

Our Lady of the Hens, Alphonsus Liguori Palermo – Agatha of Sicily, Benedict the Black, Rosalia Pavia, Italy – Syrus of Pavia (Siro), Theodore of Pavia Padua...

in the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It is one of three nearly adjacent churches dedicated in honor of St Agatha of Sicily in this neighborhood...

Principality of Moscow. Together with Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of Eastern Orthodoxy's most highly venerated saints in Russia. The date of his birth is...

22 – Zhen, Chinese empress of the Cao Wei state September 7 – Sima Yi, Chinese general and regent (b. 179) Agatha of Sicily, Christian martyr and saint...

severed; one example of this is Saint Agatha of Sicily. Femen is a feminist activist group which uses topless protests as part of their campaigns against...

Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward...

tradition is the Monastery of the Virgins of Palermo, which makes breast-shaped cakes in honor of Saint Agatha of Sicily. Traditional sugar statues,...

Agatha of Sicily is a Christian saint. Sainte-Agathe or St. Agatha may refer to the following places: St. Agatha, a rural community in Wilmot, Ontario...

Sint-Agatha-Rode, named after the third-century Christian martyr Saint Agatha of Sicily, is a Dutch-speaking village in Belgian province of Flemish Brabant...

The 1169 Sicily earthquake occurred on 4 February 1169 at 08:00 local time on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha of Sicily (in southern Italy). It had...

Saint Agatha is a 1630–1633 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán, bought by the French town of Montpellier in 1852 for 1540 francs and now in the city's...

honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred...

century) Venera of Rome (died 143) Praxedes of Rome (died 165) Glyceria of Heraclea (died 177) Blandina of Lugdunum (died 177) Agatha of Sicily (early 3rd...

Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland...

significant number of Sicilians had become martyrs, including Agatha, Christina, Lucy, and Euplius. Christianity grew rapidly in Sicily over the next two...

shows the saints Clare and Agatha, while in the lower part are miracles stories of the main Franciscan saints. The central part of the polyptych shows a still...

The town formed at the Saint Agatha Church which was a pilgrimage location in the Middle Ages. Allegedly Agatha of Sicily appeared there in the 9th century...

other direction, are two other churches dedicated in honor of St Agatha of Sicily: the church of Sant'Agata al Carcere and two blocks east on Piazza Stesicoro...

virginity". (Her patron was Agatha of Sicily, who was martyred in the 3rd century.) Her parents, however, had betrothed Agatha to a man while she was a child...

Labouré, DC (May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876) was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed...

American Catholic priest based in New Haven, Connecticut. He founded the Knights of Columbus at a local parish to serve as a mutual aid and insurance organization...