Agricola

Saint Agricola of Bologna, Martyr, was a Christian nobleman of Bologna, Italy. In the persecution of the emperor Diocletian he was seized because he had brought his slave Vitalis to Christianity and then freed him. Their death took place around the year 300 (304?) in the amphitheatre: first Vitalis, then Agricola, on a cross. Their commemoration ("Sancti Vitale et Agricolae in Arena") is on 4 November, but also on 17 July; for the moving of the relics to Nájera in Spain, 27 November and 29 April are also given.

In icons both are shown holding a hand in a hand: Vitalis was so pierced on the cross that he had more wounds than limbs, and Agricola later took the parts of his companion's body in order to keep them as relics. Their sarcophagi lie at Bologna, in the church of Santi Vitale e Agricola in Arena.