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St Agatha

DSC_5157.JPG The Christ Child Disputing with the DoctorsThumbnailsAn allegory of melancholy The Christ Child Disputing with the DoctorsThumbnailsAn allegory of melancholy The Christ Child Disputing with the DoctorsThumbnailsAn allegory of melancholy The Christ Child Disputing with the DoctorsThumbnailsAn allegory of melancholy

St Agatha (1512-1518) by Giovanni Busi, called Cariani.
Roman governor of Sicily ordered to cut off breasts
of a noblewoman Agatha of Catania, who rejected him.
She was later healed by St Peter.

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