03:16 09.02.2011
Legend of the execution of virgins Agatha
Source: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/2010239/post121497931/
Minne di Santa Agata
According to «Legenda aurea» (Golden Legend), Agatha (235-251 gg.) occurred one of the famous Katansky kind on about. Sicily. Following the adoption of baptism she decided for the love of Christ to keep her virginity. Her beauty attracted the attention of Kvitsiana Roman governor, but he was rejected persisted in its «idee fixe» Agatha.
Just at this time, the emperor Decius tried to realize, after Nero, heroic attempt to eradicate Christianity, which, like a shameful disease damage in the body of the Roman Empire. Kvitsian, carrying out orders of the emperor, conducted a series of arrests and executions of Sicilian Christians.
One of the first was arrested by the governor refused to accept petting Agatha.
As a girl not willing to renounce their faith, and answered repeatedly refused offers Kvitsiana, she was subjected to "two-tier" penalty. First, she cut breast, and without care put into a cell, where, according to the same "Golden Legend", came to her who was executed for 200 years before the student nazareyskogo adventurer a former tax police officer Peter / Simon, conjured a little, and her wounds healed. that occurred metamorphosis extremely annoyed Kvitsiana, and the next day it was decided to expose Agathe decapitation, and this operation, the consequences of which neither the ex-carpenter nor his followers had no "antidote" successfully completed the death of sixteen year old virgin. It happened on Feb. 5 251 years.
By tradition, Agatha is represented with the attributes of its Martyrdom - mites, or more like a device for cutting sheet metal, scissors, and looks more like a carpenter's apprentices (sic!).
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