San'Agata 
Agata was born and lived in Catania in a noble family of the third century. During the proconsul Quinziano. According to the tradition of Agatha consecrated to God at 15, but more detailed studies, indicate the age of 21 years, not before that age a girl could be consecrated deaconess, which was Agatha.
Quinziano In 250, arrived in Catania with the intent to enforce the edict of the Emperor asking Christians to recant their faith, the young man fell in love and ordered her to repudiate her faith and worship the pagan gods . The refusal of the proconsul Agata gave the a priestess of Venus in order to corrupt the principles, this attempt proved vain, Quinziano started a process called Agata and the praetorian. Short was the shift from process to prison, the violence to subdue the girl, the top was whipped and subjected to violent tearing of a breast, but the night was visited by St. Peter reassured her and the wounds healed, then was subjected the punishment of burning coals. The following night, the latest violence, Feb. 5 251 Agatha died in his cell.
Just a year after his death Catania was hit by a major eruption of Mount Etna, the people went into the cathedral and took the veil of the saint led him in a procession near the casting, this stopped after a while. It was Feb. 5, the date of the martyrdom of the virgin Catania.
