Agathe, St. (Ag`athe, St.) , a Sicilian virgin who suffered martyrdom at Palermo under Decius in 251; represented in art as crowned with a long veil and bearing a pair of shears, the instruments with which her breast were cut off. Festival, Feb. 5.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Agass`iz * Aga`thias