St Agatha Novena
| Novena Starts: | January 27th |
| Feastday: | February 5th |
| Birth: | 231 |
| Death: | 251 |
You can pray the full St Agatha Novena below.
Day 1 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 2 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 3 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 4 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 5 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 6 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 7 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 8 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Day 9 Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Intro Prayer
O Saint Agatha, who withstood the unwelcome advances from unwanted suitors, and suffered pain and torture for your devotion to our Lord, we celebrate your faith, dignity, and martyrdom.
Protect us against rape and other violations, guard us against breast cancer and other afflictions of the body, and inspire us to overcome adversity.
O Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, mercifully grant that we who venerate your sacrifice may receive your intercession:
Pray for (mention your request here), if it be for the greater glory of God and the good of my soul. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
Answered Prayers From This Novena
I had been suffering with symptoms and had my mammogram and ultrasound today and they were fine! Thank you St Agatha for hearing my prayers!
from C.C.
I prayed the novena twice in full and began a third time until Day 4, which was my diagnostic mammogram and breast ultrasound today. I started to cry during the latter because I was scared; the technician was so kind and compassionate.
She hugged me and she said, “I haven’t found anything. That’s the reason I keep looking, because I believe you’re ok and there’s nothing to be found. Let me go show the doctor and don’t get worried so much for something that hasn’t even happened.”
Then I cried again when she returned to confirm with the paperwork clearing me. I kept saying thank you. The front desk staff saw the state of my eye makeup when I checked out and said, “it’s ok, you’re clear,” and I said that they were happy tears. I’m so relieved.
I’m not even Catholic, but I believe Saint Agatha intervened on my behalf. God bless you all.
from F.F.
A few weeks ago I learned my younger sister’s annual breast imaging showed a small mass. We have a very strong family history of breast cancer and for this reason get annual breast MRIs in addition to annual mammograms. The mass was not seen on the mammogram she underwent a few months ago.
Naturally, I was upset with worry. We recently lost our mother just over a year ago in a sudden but terrible accident. Our mother suffered a seizure while running hot bath water - and being unconscious and unable to turn off the water she suffered severe burns. She was hospitalized for several weeks before passing away from infection secondary to her wounds, on February 5.
I immediately went to chapel the next day to pray. I was struck by a portrait of St. Agatha which had a small plaque designating her as the patroness of breast cancer patients. Upon reading further I learned that she was also the patroness of victims of fire and burns and that her feast day was February 5! Wow! But not a coincidence! I truly believed my mother had asked God to send me a message that everything would be ok and I was enveloped immediately with a tremendous sense of peace.
I lit a candle near the portrait and started this novena at that very moment. I continued to pray the novena and for St. Agatha’s intercession in the coming days as my sister underwent further imaging and ultimately a breast biopsy. I completed the novena on the morning of 10/22. Just a few hours later, I received a text from my sister that she’d just gotten a call with her biopsy results - the mass was benign!
What a blessing!
Such a special gift from God and I’m confident St. Agatha (and maybe even my own mother) interceded on behalf of my sister. I’m so grateful and want to offer my gratitude today for prayers answered. Thank you for sharing this novena on this website for people - such as myself - so that we may know and pray for St. Agatha’s intercession.
from S.G.
Thank you St. Agatha for your intercession !!! Just found out great medical news!!
from M.E.
I have a testimony to make. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022. I’ve prayed for intercession from St. Agatha using your website during the treatment. My mother has been cancer free since early 2023. I have prayed with the novena whenever I’m too worried about her. Thanks to our dear Lord Jesus and St. Agatha for her intercession.
I just wanted to let you guys know about this. Thank you so much for hosting the website.
from A.T.
Prayed 16 novenas to Saint Agatha for a friend to be cured from stage 3 breast cancer and received this text from her:
Praise God and thank the Lord and Blessed Mother and all the saints and angels and all my prayer warriors on earth! Just got off the phone with my surgeon, and all cancer cells are dead and no cancer in lymph nodes and no live cancer cells in tumor that she removed. I’m cancer free! Thanks be to God!
from I.S.
I had breast cancer in my past but have been clear for several years.
When I had my annual mammogram this year, they sent me for an ultrasound and said I had two masses in the same breast that had breast cancer before. They had me come in for two biopsies, so I started the novena to Saint Agatha asking for her intercession.
Got my report yesterday. Both masses are totally benign. Thank you, Saint Agatha and thank you God for Saint Agatha.
from B.V.
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Read more about the patron saint of breast cancer, nurses Sicily, bellfounders, bakers, Catania Sicily, against fire, earthquakes, jewelers, martyrs, natural disasters, nurses, Palermo Sicily, rape victims, San Marino, single laywomen, sterility, torture victims, volcanic eruptions, wet nurses, Zamarramala Spain on the St Agatha Saint Page.