Saint Agatha. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 5 February.

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Saint Agatha.

Attended in Prison by Saint Peter and an Angel.

Artist: Alessandro Turchi (1578–1649).

Medium: Oil on Slate.

According to an early Christian legend, when a 3rd-Century Roman official of Sicily desired the Christian woman, Agatha, and she refused to yield to his advances, he had her tortured, and even ordered her breasts cut off. At night in prison, she was visited by a vision of Saint Peter and an Angel, and her breasts were miraculously restored. The gray stone of the prison wall was created by letting the slate show through, and it forms a background for the night scene, illuminated by a torch. As opposed to canvas and wood, slate gave a painting almost unlimited durability 

and the same kind of permanence as sculpture.

Date: Between, circa, 1640 and 1645 (Baroque).

Current location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore,

Maryland, United States of America.

Credit line: Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909.

Source/Photographer: Walters Art Museum.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Parish Church of Saint Agatha of Sicily,

Bischofstetten, Austria.

Deutsch: Pfarrkirche Bischofstetten, Österreich.

Photo: 8 February 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: BSonne.

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Saint Agatha of Sicily is a Christian Saint. Feast Day 5 February. Agatha was born at Catania, Sicily, and Martyred circa 251 A.D. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.

She is the Patron Saint of: Catania, Sicily; Molise, Italy; Malta; San Marino; and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia, Spain. She is also the Patron Saint of breast cancer patients, Martyrs, wet nurses, bell-founders, bakers, fire, earthquakes, and eruptions of Mount Etna.

Agatha is buried at the Abbey Church of Saint Agatha (Badia di Sant'Agata), Catania. She is listed in the Late-6th-Century Martyrologium Hieronymianum, associated with Jerome, and the Synaxarion, the Calendar of the Church of Carthage, circa 530 A.D.

English: The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha.

Italiano: Martirio di Sant'Agata.

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

This File: 17 April 2006.

User: Crux. This image was 

copied from wikipedia:de.

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Agatha also appears in one of the carmina of Venantius Fortunatus. Two early Churches were dedicated to her in Rome, notably the Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti, in via Mazzarino, a Titular Church with Apse mosaics of circa 460 A.D., and traces of a fresco cycle, over-painted by Gismondo Cerrini, in 1630. In the 6th-Century, the Church was adapted to Arian Christianity, hence its name, "Saint Agatha of Goths" (Sant'Agata dei Goti), and later reconsecrated by Pope Gregory the Great, who confirmed her traditional Sainthood. 

Agatha is also depicted in the mosaics of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, where she appears, richly dressed, in the procession of female Martyrs along the North Wall. Her image forms an initial "I" in the Sacramentary of Gellone, from the end of the 8th-Century.

Italiano: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702-1768), 

la Chiesa della Badia di Sant'Agata a Catania (1767).

English: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702-1768),
was the Architect of the Abbey Church of Saint Agatha,
Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Photo: 4 July 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Giovanni Dall'Orto.

(Wikimedia Commons)

One of the most-highly-venerated Virgin Martyrs of Christian antiquity, Agatha was put to death during the persecution of Decius (250 A.D. - 253 A.D.) in Catania, Sicily, for her steadfast profession of Faith.

Her written legend comprises "straightforward accounts of interrogation, torture, resistance, and triumph, which constitute some of the earliest hagiographic literature", and are reflected in later recensions, the earliest surviving one being an illustrated Late-10th-Century passio, bound into a composite volume, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, originating, probably, in Autun, Burgundy; in its margin illustrations, Magdalena Carrasco detected Carolingian or Late Antique iconographic traditions.

According to Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, of circa 1288, having dedicated her virginity to God, fifteen-year-old Agatha, from a rich and noble family, rejected the amorous advances of the low-born Roman Prefect, Quintianus, who then persecuted her for her Christian Faith. He sent Agatha to Aphrodisia, the keeper of a brothel.

English: Church of Saint Agatha, Rabat, Malta.

Italiano: Chiesa di Sant'Agata, Rabat, Malta.

Photo: 31 August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Cruccone.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Madam, finding her intractable, Quintianus sends for her, argues, threatens, and finally has her put in prison. Among the tortures she underwent was the cutting off of her breasts. After further dramatic confrontations with Quintianus, represented in a sequence of dialogues in her passio that document her fortitude and steadfast devotion. Saint Agatha was then sentenced to be burned at the stake, but an earthquake saved her from that fate; instead, she was sent to prison where Saint Peter the Apostle appeared to her and healed her wounds. Saint Agatha died in prison, according to the Legenda Aurea, in "the year of our Lord two hundred and fifty-three, in the time of Decius, the Emperor of Rome."

Osbern Bokenham, A Legend of Holy Women, written in the 1440s, offers some further detail.

English: Internal view of Saint Agatha's Chapel, Mdina, Malta.

Italiano: Interno della cappella di Sant'Agata, Mdina, Malta.

Photo: 31 August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Cruccone.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha's Church, 

Yorkshire, England. 

The Church is next to Easby Abbey.

Photo: 15 June 2008.

Source: Own work by uploader.

Author: Greenjettaguy.

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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Agatha. 

Virgin and Martyr.

Feast Day 5 February.

Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Cathedral of Saint Agatha, Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Deutsch: Italien, Sizilien, Catania, Dom Sant' Agata.

Photo: 6 October 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr (Collect), was born in Sicily of noble parentage, but she estimated that, for her, the highest nobility would be to belong to Jesus, whom she took as her Spouse (Gospel).

Endowed with remarkable beauty, she had to resist the solicitations of the Roman Governor, Quintianus, who, unable to attain his end by persuasion, had recourse to violence. Her breast was torn by his order, but was healed on the following night, by the Apostle, Saint Peter, who appeared to her in prison (Communion).

Then the body of the Saint was rolled on pieces of broken pottery and on burning coals, and when she was brought back to her cell, she expired while Praying.

This happened at Catana (Catania), Sicily, in 251 A.D., during the Persecution of the Emperor, Decius. God Almighty, by granting the victory of Martyrdom to a feeble woman (Collect), wished to show that He alone is our Redeemer, for it is with this "end in view that He chooses what is weak, in the world, to confound with their nothingness those who trust in their own strength" (Epistle).

English: Interior of the Church of Saint Agatha, Hausleiten, Austria.

Deutsch: Innenansicht der katholischen Pfarrkirche hl. Agatha

in der niederösterreichischen Gemeinde Hausleiten.

Photo: 29 September 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bwag.

(Wikimedia Commons)

On several occasions, the virginal veil, which covered the tomb of Saint Agatha, held up the torrents of burning lava rushing down from Mount Etna and threatening to ruin the town. God thus honoured the resistance that her very pure Soul had shown to all the assaults of passion.

Her name is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass (Second List). Her Feast was already celebrated at Rome in the 6th-Century. The Church of Saint Agatha, in Rome, was made a Stational Church by Pope Pius XI, in 1934 (Third Tuesday in Lent).

Let us invoke Saint Agatha to preserve our homes from fire and to extinguish, through the spirit of penitence, the impure flames that consume our bodies and our Souls.

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Saint Blaise. Bishop And Martyr. Died 316 A.D. Feast Day 3 February.

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English: Saint Blaise confronting the Roman Governor.

Scene from the life of Saint Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste (Armenia).

Martyr under the Roman Emperor Licinius (4th-Century). 

Stained-Glass Window from the area of Soissons, Picardy, France.

Early-13th-Century.

Français: Saint Blaise devant le gouverneur romain : scène de la vie de saint Blaise, évêque de Sébaste en Arménie, martyr sous le règne de l'empereur Licinius (IVe siècle). Vitrail de la région de Soissons (Picardie, France), début du XIVe siècle. Versement de l'Office des biens privés, 1951.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Credit line: Assigned by the Office of private goods and interests, 1951.

Source/Photographer: Jastrow (2005).

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Saint Blaise (Armenian: Սուրբ Բարսեղ, Sourb Barsegh; Greek: Άγιος Βλάσιος, Agios Vlasios), also known as Saint Blase, was a physician, and Bishop of Sebastea, in historical Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey).

According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was Martyred, by being beaten, attacked with iron carding combs, and beheaded. In the Latin Church, his Feast falls on 3 February; in the Eastern Churches, on 11 February.

The first reference we have to him is in manuscripts of the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, a court physician at the very end of the 5th-Century, or the beginning of the 6th-Century; there, his aid is invoked in treating objects stuck in the throat.

Marco Polo reported the place where "Meeser Saint Blaise obtained the glorious Crown of Martyrdom", Sebastea, the Shrine near the Citadel Mount, was mentioned by William of Rubruck in 1253. However, it appears to no longer exist.

English: Church of Saint Blaise, Alsace, France.

Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Valff, Eglise Saint-Blaise, 

Maître-autel (XVIIIe) avec statues de Sainte-Marguerite 

et Saint-Jean de Népomucène, Tableau Saint-Blaise.

Photo: 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rh-67.

(Wikimedia Commons)

From being a healer of bodily ailments, Saint Blaise became a physician of Souls, then retired for a time, by Divine Inspiration, to a cavern, where he remained in Prayer. As Bishop of Sebastea, Blaise instructed his people, as much by his example as by his words, and the great virtues and sanctity of the Servant of God were attested by many Miracles. From all parts, the people came flocking to him for the cure of bodily and spiritual ills.

In 316 A.D., the Governor of Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia, Agricolaus, began a Persecution, by order of the Emperor, Licinius. Saint Blaise was seized. After interrogation and a severe scourging, he was hurried off to prison, and subsequently beheaded. The legendary Acts of Saint Blaise were written 400 years later. The Acts of Saint Blaise, written in Greek, are Mediaeval.

The Legend, as given in the Grande Encyclopédie, is as follows:

Blaise, who had studied philosophy in his youth, was a doctor in Sebaste, in Armenia, the city of his birth, who exercised his art with miraculous ability, good-will, and piety. When the Bishop of the city died, he was chosen to succeed him, with the acclamation of all the people. His holiness was manifest through many Miracles: From all around, people came to him to find cures for their spirit and their body; even wild animals came in herds to receive his blessing. In 316 A.D., Agricola, the Governor of Cappadocia and of Lesser Armenia, having arrived in Sebastia at the order of the Emperor Licinius to kill the Christians, arrested the Bishop. As he was being led to prison, a mother set her only son, choking to death of a fish-bone, at his feet, and the child was cured straight away. Regardless, the Governor, unable to make Blaise renounce his Faith, beat him with a stick, ripped his flesh with iron combs, and beheaded him.

In many places, on the day of his Feast, the Blessing of Saint Blaise is given: Two candles are consecrated, generally by a Prayer, these are then held in a crossed position by a Priest over the heads of the Faithful or the people are touched on the throat with them. At the same time, the following Blessing is given: "May Almighty God at the intercession of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, preserve you from infections of the throat and from all other afflictions".

English: Valentino Rovisi, Saint Blaise, 1780, fresco, 

San Biagio church in Alleghe.

Polski: Chwała św. Błażeja i osiem epizodów z życia 

świętego, 1780, fresk, kościół w Alleghe.

Photo: 27 December 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Stanisław Gurba.

(Wikimedia Commons)

One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers [Editor: Or, The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints], Blaise became one of the most popular Saints of the Middle Ages. His cult became widespread in Europe in the 11th- and 12th-Centuries and his legend is recounted in the 14th-Century Legenda Aurea. Saint Blaise is the Saint of the Wild Beast.

He is the Patron of the Armenian Order of Saint Blaise. In Italy, he is known as San Biagio. In Spanish-speaking countries, he is known as San Blas, and has lent his name to many places (see San Blas). In Italy, Saint Blaise's Remains rest at the Basilica over the town of Maratea, shipwrecked there during Leo III the Isaurian's iconoclastic persecutions.

Many German Churches, including the former Abbey of Saint Blasius, in the Black Forest, and the Church of Balve, are dedicated to Saint Blaise/Blasius.

In Cornwall, England, the village of St Blazey derives from his name, where the Parish Church is still dedicated to Saint Blaise. Indeed, the Council of Oxford, in 1222, forbade all work on his Festival. There is a Church dedicated to Saint Blaise in the Devon, England, hamlet of Haccombe, near Newton Abbot (also one at Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight, and another at Milton, near Abingdon, in Oxfordshire), one of the country's smallest Churches. It is located next to Haccombe House, which is the family home of the Carew family, descendants of the Vice-Admiral on board the Mary Rose at the time of her sinking. One curious fact associated with this Church is that its "Vicar" goes by the title of "Arch-Priest".

English: Statue of Saint Blaise on the Holy Trinity Column 

in Olomouc in Olomouc (Czech Republic).

Čeština: Socha Svatého Blažeje na sloupu 

nejsvětější trojice v Olomouci.

Source: Own work.

Author: Michal Maňas.

(Wikimedia Commons)

There is a Saint Blaise's Well In Bromley, Kent, where the water was considered to have medicinal virtues. Saint Blaise is also associated with Stretford, in Lancashire. A Blessing of the Throats ceremony is held on 3 February at Saint Etheldreda's Church, in London, and in Balve, Germany.

In Bradford, West Yorkshire, a Roman Catholic Middle School, named after Saint Blaise, was operated by the Diocese of Leeds from 1961 to 1995. The name was chosen due to the connections of Bradford to the woollen industry and the method whereby Saint Blaise was Martyred (with the wool-comb).

Saint Blaise (Croatian: Sveti Vlaho or Sveti Blaž) is the Patron Saint of Dubrovnik and, formerly, the Protector of the Independent Republic of Ragusa. At Dubrovnik, Croatia, his Feast Day is celebrated on 3 February, when Relics of the Saint are paraded in Reliquaries. The festivities begin the previous day, Candlemas, when white doves are released. Chroniclers of Dubrovnik, such as Rastic and Ranjina, attribute his veneration there to a vision in 971 A.D., to warn the inhabitants of an impending attack by the Venetians.

English: Church of Saint Blaise, 

Montepulciano, Italy.

Italiano: Montepulciano - 

Chiesa di S. Biagio.

Photo: August 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Blaise (Blasius) revealed the Venetians' pernicious plan to Stojko, a Canon of Saint Stephen's Cathedral. The Senate summoned Stojko, who told them in detail how Saint Blaise had appeared before him as an old man with a long beard and a Bishop's Mitre and Staff. In this form, the effigy of Blaise remained on Dubrovnik's State Seal and coinage until the Napoleonic era.

In England, in the 18th- and 19th-Centuries, Blaise was adopted as mascot of wool-workers' pageants, particularly in Essex, Yorkshire, Wiltshire and Norwich. The popular enthusiasm for the Saint is explained by the belief that Blaise had brought prosperity (as symbolised by the Woolsack) to England, by teaching the English to comb wool. According to the tradition, as recorded in printed broadsheets, Blaise came from Jersey, Channel Islands. Jersey was certainly a centre of export of woollen goods (as witnessed by the name jersey for the woollen textile). However, this legend is probably the result of confusion with a different Saint, Blasius of Caesarea (Caesarea being also the Latin name of Jersey).

In iconography, Blaise is represented holding two crossed candles in his hand (the Blessing of Saint Blaise), or in a cave surrounded by wild beasts, as he was found by the hunters of the Governor. He is often shown with the instruments of his Martyrdom, steel combs. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the Patron Saint of wool combers, in particular, and the wool trade in general.

English: Saint Blaise Blessing a young child (note the crossed candles).

Altarpiece in The Church of Saint Blaise, Alsace, France.

Français: Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Valff, Eglise Saint-Blaise,

Maître-autel (XVIIIe), Tableau Saint-Blaise (XIXe).

Date: 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rh-67.

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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Blaise.

Bishop and Martyr.

Feast Day 3 February.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Saint Stephen, Saint Blaise, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Peter, and the donor, Pierre Rup. Swiss Wooden Altarpiece, circa 1450. Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon, France.

Français: Saint Etienne Saint Blaise Saint Jean Baptiste Saint Pierre et le donateur Pierre Rup. Suisse vers 1450. Bois. Musée des beaux arts de Dijon (Côte d'Or, France).

Date: 3 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: François de Dijon.

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Saint Blaise, elected Bishop of Sebastea, Armenia (Introit), had a part in the Redemption of the Saviour. "The sufferings of the Saviour abounded in him" (Epistle), and, after a life of severe penance passed among wild beasts in a cave on Mount Argeus, "he gave his life for Jesus" (Gospel). Having suffered the most atrocious torments under Licinius, he was beheaded in 316 A.D.

Like the Redeemer, Saint Blaise healed bodies while healing Souls, wherefore his intercession was often prayed for. In consequence of his having saved the life of a child, who was dying choked by a bone which had stuck in his throat, the Church recognises his "prerogative for healing all diseases of the throat". She Blesses two candles to this effect and asks God for all those, whose necks the candles shall touch, that they may be delivered from throat diseases, or from any other ill, through the merits of this holy Martyr's passion. He is one of The Fourteen "Auxiliary Saints".

Let us, with Saint Blaise, take part in the sufferings of the Redeemer, so as to be able with him to take part in His triumph (Epistle).

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The Four Marian Anthems.

Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

English: The Virgin In Prayer.

Español: Virgen rezando.

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Current location: National Gallery, London.

This File: 29 January 2013.

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Ave Regina.

"Ave Regina".

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The Four Marian Anthems, used during The Liturgical Year, are:

Alma Redemptorist Mater (sung from First Vespers in Advent until Second Vespers of 2 February, inclusive);

Ave Regina (sung from Compline on 2 February until Maundy Thursday, exclusive);

Regina Caeli (sung from Compline on Holy Saturday until Trinity Sunday, exclusive).

Salve Regina (sung from First Vespers of Trinity Sunday until Advent).

Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church, Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, South Germany.

Hermann Contractus was a monk in this Abbey and is accredited 

with creating The Marian Anthems of Alma Redemptoris and Ave Regina.

Photo taken by en:User:Ahoerstemeier (November 2001).

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There are four main Marian Anthems (you will note that they are in alphabetical order and are used, thus, during the Liturgical Year).

Alma Redemptoris

(From First Vespers of Advent until Second Vespers of 2 February, inclusive.)

The authorship of this Anthem is attributed to Hermann Contractus, a monk of the Abbey of Reichenau (+1054);

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Ave Regina

(From Compline on 2 February until Maundy Thursday, inclusive.)

The authorship of this Anthem is attributed to Hermann Contractus, a monk of the Abbey of Reichenau (+1054).

The insertion of this Anthem in the Divine Office is attributed to Pope Clement VI (1342 - 1352);

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Regina Caeli

(From Compline on Holy Saturday until Trinity Sunday, inclusive.)

The authorship of this Anthem is attributed to Pope Gregory V (+998 A.D.);

Listen to the REGINA CAELI, here

Salve Regina

(From First Vespers of Trinity Sunday until Advent.)

This Marian Anthem is attributed to Adhemar de Monteil, Bishop of Le Puy, France, (+1098). The three final invocations were added by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091 - 1153).

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