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Saints of the Month: February
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Saint Agatha of Sicily
Saint Peter Healing Agatha, by the
Caravaggio-follower Giovanni Lanfranco, ca
1614
The 5th of February is the feast day of Saint Agatha of Sicily (c.
231 – c. 251 AD). She is the patron saint of Sicily; bellfounders;
breast cancer; bakers; Catania, Sicily; against fire; earthquakes;
eruptions of Mount Etna; fire; jewelers; martyrs; natural
disasters; nurses; Palermo, Sicily; rape victims; San Marino;
single laywomen; sterility; torture victims; volcanic eruptions;
nurses; wet nurses; and Zamarramala, Spain.
The following is from Butler’s Lives of the Saints:
ST. AGATHA was born in Sicily, of rich and
noble parents—a child of benediction from
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