On this page of the Litany, a series of invocations to favored saints, the first saint appealed to is Saint Agatha: S[an]c[t]a Agatha ora pro nobis (Saint Agatha, pray for us). The pattern is followed for the prayers to Agnes, Cecilia, Lucy, and…
The Martyrdom of St Agatha; standing on a raised platform with two men torturing her by the shearing of her breasts, a woman and child crouched in the foreground, God the Father surrounded by putti above
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over…
The saint tied to a tree at centre, two men shearing her breasts with large tongs, hills and a city in background; copy in reverse after Cornelis Cort who engraved after Giulio Clovio
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