Sep 222010
![[Saint Agapitus]](http://saints.sqpn.com/saintabe.jpg "jpg detail of an old holy card with an image of a painting of Saint Agapitus; painting on the wall of the Cathedral of Palestrina; artist unknown")
Also known as
- Agapetus the Martyr
- Agapitus of Palestrina
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Fifteen year old boy who proudly, publicly proclaimed his Christianity during the persecution of Aurelian. Martyr.
Because he was a young man, and because the heroic way he met his martyrdom brought about many conversions, his was a favourite story in times past, and often grew in the telling, but we know very little about him for sure.
Born
- 259 in Palestrina, Italy
- thrown to wild animals in the arena
- when they would not touch him, he was beheaded c.274 at Palestrina, Italy
- relics at Palestrina, Italy and Besancon, France
- young man chained in a dungeon
- young man hanging upside down over a fire
- young man with palm, crown, burning coal, lions or dragons
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
- Kirken i Norge
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints, by John Dawson Gilmary Shea
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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