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 ...

Seven new statues are installed in a cathedral to celebrate its 900th anniversary and complete work started ... New statues mark St Albans Cathedral's 900th anniversary. Published. 25 April 2015.

A trio of biblical figures will now watch over St John's Cathedral in Brisbane following the historic raising of hand-carved sandstone statues. The statues, depicting John the Baptiser, Jesus ...

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 ...

St. Peter was himself martyred some 200 years before Agatha and is shown here to the faithful as a source of comfort and the bearer of God’s healing for the suffering young Christian.

The martyrdom of St. Agatha is a particularly gory tale, even by biblical standards. Around A.D. 250, the young Sicilian virgin refused the advances of the pagan prefect Quintianus. In retaliation ...

In addition to all the Baroque must-sees, like the St. Agatha Cathedral and the Piazza del Duomo, skip back more centuries to ancient Rome by visiting the Teatro Romano, dating from the 2nd century.

The statue was blessed by Bishop Giovanni-Maria Camilleri at the parvis of St James church at It-Tokk on August 13. Every August 13, the statue was paraded along the streets of Victoria and then ...

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 ...

Seven new statues are installed in a cathedral to celebrate its 900th anniversary and complete work started ... New statues mark St Albans Cathedral's 900th anniversary. Published. 25 April 2015.