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Peace be with you I am Libertino, first bishop of Agrigento. Saint and martyr, celebrated on November 3. Tradition has me sent directly by the apostle Peter to preach the Gospel in this city, as the first bishop. The scene is well depicted in a famous 18th century painting that you can admire inside our Cathedral. Historians place me as a contemporary of Saints Marciano who was the first bishop of Syracuse and Pellegrino. Tradition tells that, due to the effectiveness and fruitfulness of my preaching, the pagan authorities decided to crush it. Initially, with flattery and threats and then, with torture until martyrdom, which some scholars place on Mount Triòcala the ancient Caltabellotta, together with San Pellegrino. After the plague of 1625, for the graces received through my intercession during the epidemic, the people of Agrigento built me ​​a chapel which still exists but, today, cannot be visited, due to its unusability.