Sant'Agata la Vetere, Catania

Sant’Agata la Vetere is a Roman Catholic church located in the piazza of the same name (along via Santa Maddalena) in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.

An aedicule recalling the site where Agatha of Sicily fa, was erected by bishop St Everio some 13 years after her death in 264.

It is said the Byzantine general George Maniakes brought her relics to Constantinople in 1040, during his raid to reconquer what was then the Emirate of Sicily.

Putatively they were returned in 1026,[2] though as typical for many saint relics, multiple pieces of her body are claimed by various churches in Europe.

The church houses the putative sarcophagus of Saint Agatha with Roman marble and Byzantine stone additions.