Christian saint and martyress (235–261)
A third-century Christian virgin martyred in Roman Sicily, her name still spoken aloud in the Canon of the Mass — a rare honor among the early dead.
Born in Catania around 231 AD, Agatha lived under Roman rule in a province where the new faith carried mortal risk. She was killed around 251, and the manner of her death secured her place among the virgin martyrs whose stories traveled fastest through the early Church. Her feast day, 5 February, became fixed in the calendar as the traditional cutoff for New Year's greetings. Catania claimed her as patron, then Molise, Malta, San Marino, Gallipoli, and a Spanish municipality in Segovia — an unusual geographic spread for a martyr who never left Sicily.
Sourced, dated quotes from Agatha of Sicily
[Italian graphic novelist Fabia] Mustica recounts a promise made to Agatha years ago, following the moment her cherished cousin awoke from a deep coma caused by a car accident.
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