St. Agatha was a young woman who was martyred in Sicily more than 1,700 years ago during the persecution of Decius. Susan Klemond Blogs St. Agatha, Tormented and Imprisoned for the Lord ...

Today is the feast of St. Agatha, of Sicily, Virgin, Martyr. "Every year on February 4 and 5, the men of Catania pull her relics, housed in a bejeweled life-sized effigy through the streets of ...

ROME LETTER: It is a chilly February evening in a packed Piazza Stesicoro, in the heart of Catania, Sicily. Bunches of balloons straining on their ropes, and stalls laden with an intriguing ...