Agatha, Saint, -approximately 250

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Born in Sicily, died in Catania, Sicily, approximately 250. Her breasts were cut off and she was thrown in prison, where Saint Peter visited her and cured her chest, though she died still in prison. She is depicted in art holding a pair of pincers or bearing her breasts on a platter; later these were mistaken for loaves of bread, giving rise to the custom of blessing bread on a dish for Saint Agatha's day. She is the patron saint of wet nurses, bell founders, and jewellers.
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referencedIn PASSIONES SANCTORUM; scil. De Septem Dormientibus;-Passio S. Cypriani;-Passio Apostolorurn Petri et Pauli;-Passio Beatorum Machabeorum;-Passio SS. Sixti, Laurentii, et Ippoliti ;-Passio Beatæ Agnetis, virginis;--Passio Beatæ Agathæ, virginis;-Passio ..., 9th century British Library
referencedIn Arundel MS 330: Membranaceus British Library
referencedIn Arundel MS 198: Codex membranaceus, in 4to., ff. 138, sec. xiv., quondam Carthusiensium prope Moguntiam. British Library
referencedIn Collection of relics and reliquaries, 1795-1999 University of Dayton
referencedIn Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298. Legenda aurea (fragment), ca. 1350?. Folger Shakespeare Library
referencedIn LIVES OF SAINTS, Exempla, etc., in Latin. Contents:-1. Legendary of abbreviated lives of saints beginning with St. Silvester (31 Dec.), f. 1, and ending with St. John Apostle (27 Dec.), f. 48. Many of the lives are marked in the margin "ix l" [lecti..., 13th century British Library
referencedIn Additional letters from various correspondents, 1824-1882. Houghton Library
referencedIn Liturgy and Life Collection Boston College. John J. Burns Library
referencedIn Hary, Nicoletta Mattioli, 1927-. Relics and reliquaries collection, 1795-1999. University of Dayton, Roesch Library
referencedIn William Ernest Hocking papers Houghton Library
referencedIn BREVIARY, of Cologne use, as appears from the Calendar, from the offices in honour of St. Peter, the Three Kin", and St. Heribert (see below, artt. 1, 4, 6, 7), and from the rubric "Sciendim quod sic seruatur de vna virgine in maiori ecclesia Colonen..., 1436 British Library
referencedIn Vellum, in 4to., ff. 201, written in 1447, by Thomas Burgh. Osbern Bokenam's Lives of the Saints, in verse, chiefly from the Golden Legend. 1. Prologue, addressed to Thomas Borgh, of Cambridge, with a request that the author's name may be kept secret... British Library
referencedIn Collection of female saints' lives [manuscript], early 17th century. Folger Shakespeare Library
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associatedWith Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298. person
associatedWith Nichols, George, 1809-1882 person
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