ST. AGATHA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR.

We have her panegyrics by St. Aldhelm, in the seventh, and St.

Methodius, patriarch of Constantinople, in the ninth, centuries; also a

hymn in her honor among the poems of pope Damasus, and another by St.

Isidore of Seville, in Bollandus, p. 596. The Greeks have interpolated

her acts, but those in Latin are very ancient. They are abridged by

Tillemont, t. 3, p. 409. See also Rocci Pyrrho, in Sicilia Sacra on

Palermo, Catana, and Malta.

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