When Agatha refused the sexual advances of the Roman magistrate she was beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and her breasts were crushed and cut off. She told the judge, "Cruel man, have you forgotten your mother and the breast that nourished you, that you dare to mutilate me this way?" God gave her the relief she needed in the form of a vision of Saint Peter who then healed her wounds.
Imprisoned further, then rolled on live coals, she was near death when an earthquake struck. In the destruction, the magistrate's friend was crushed, which frightened the magistrate and he fled. Brave, Saint Agatha thanked God for an end to her pain, and died.
St. Agatha's Tower was created in 1649.
Agatha was born in Sicily and was martyred there.
There are a number of saints who chose to die rather than be impure. Among them: St. Lucy of Syracuse, St. Philomena, St. Agnes, St. Agatha, St. Maria Goretti, Blessed Laura Vicuna.
St. Agatha did not belong to a religious order because the concept of nuns in Roman Catholicism wasn't until centuries later. St. Agatha was martyred c. 250 AD.
Agatha of Lorraine died in 1147.
Agatha of Sicily died in 251.
Agatha Welhouk died in 1715.
Jef Mennekens died on March 5, 2013, in St.-Agatha Berchem, Belgium of heart attack.
The address of the Long Lake Public Library is: 384 Main Street, St. Agatha, 04772 0033
Agatha was a martyr so the color of Mass vestments would be red.
Rebecca Agatha Armour died in 1891.
Agatha Barbara died on 2002-02-04.