In gratitude, Catania and other surrounding towns chose Agatha as their patron saint. Today, devotees of St. Agatha ask her to intercede for women who have complicated childbirths or problems with ...

a chorus of the faithful loudly recites as the statue passes by. "Saint Agatha is alive." Amidst the crowd in Catania, people of all ages celebrate, greeting their patron saint as she walks the ...

Filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein, a Johns Hopkins research professor and founding director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies, visited the Festival of Saint Agatha in Catania, Sicily, for her new ...