FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 4, 28 January 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

V^u-LIfiANINU-S 5 EUR NEXT WEEK’S " CALENDAR ' ' ' Feb. 1, Sun.-Fourth Sunday after Epiph- ■ : ” any. St. Brigid, Virgin. kp -2,Purification of the Blessed dr /j' , Virgin Mary. ' „ 3, Tues.—St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr. „ 4, Wed.—St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop. „ 5, Thurs.-St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr. „ 6, —-St. Titus, Bishop, and Con- ., , fessor. .yj „ 7, Saturday.—St. Romuald, Abbot. *? i ‘ ’ ’ I St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr, St. Agatha was born at Palermo, Sicily, ;■ and was martyred on February 5, 251, at Jv!; Catanea, during the persecutions of Decius. Quintianus, the Governor of Sicily, seeing his love for her repudiated, took revenge by accasing her of being a Christian, and caused her to suffer most cruel torments. She was scourged, burned with hot irons, torn with hooks, and then placed on a bed of live coals and glass. From all these tortures St. Agatha went forth triumphant, and finally died in her prison. The inhabitants of CaI tanea invoke her, especially during an out- • break of Mount Etna;