St Agatha at the Duomo

St. Agatha at the Duomo

The Duomo is on the piazza off Via Garibaldi. Their main patron saint is Saint Agatha. I think she is a saint because they cut off her breasts and mutilated her stomach, and tried to burn her, and she still lived, for awhile. Then she did die after all of that. Every year they have two celebrations for St. Agatha, one in February and one in August. The February one is bigger. We saw the August one on Monday the 17th. They were carrying around her tomb, and had fireworks, people were dressed up and screaming, as if on the day she died. We had candles and burned them as an offering for St. Agatha. Agatha in Italian is Agata, and there are a lot of signs around that say WSAGATA. We didn't know what that meant, but we found out the W means Viva, because there are two V's connected, and the S stands for saint.