title: Messia
text: # Messia
  
  Messia may refer to:
  
  * Messia gens, family at ancient Rome
  * Pedro Messía de la Cerda, 2nd Marquis of Vega de Armijo (1700–1783); a Spanish naval officer
  * a harvesting goddess associated with Tutelina
  * Agutazza Messia, an illiterate Sicilian woman (a quilt maker and domestic) from whom Giuseppe Pitre takes most of his tales, also in Italo Calvino's folktales collection
  