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Agnes of Rome 1 Agnes of Rome Agnes of Rome 1 Agnes of Rome Saint Agnes Saint Agnes by Domenichino Virgin and Martyr Born c. 291 Died c. 304 Honored in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism Canonized Pre-congregation Major shrine Church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura and the Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone, both in Rome Feast 21 January; before Pope John XXIII revised the calendar, there was a second feast on January 28 Attributes a lamb, martyr's palm Patronage Betrothed couples; chastity; Children of Mary; Colegio Capranica of Rome; crops; gardeners; Girl Guides; girls; rape victims; virgins; the diocese of Rockville Centre, New York Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c. 304) is a virgin–martyr, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism. She is one of seven women, who along with the Blessed Virgin, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is the patron saint of chastity, gardeners, girls, engaged couples, rape victims, and virgins. She is depicted in art with a lamb, as her name resembles the Latin word for "lamb", agnus. The name "Agnes" is actually derived from the feminine Greek adjective "hagnē" (ἁγνή) meaning "chaste, pure, sacred". Her feast day is 21 January. In pre-1970 versions of the General Roman Calendar an additional feast of the same saint is given one week later, on 28 January (see Tridentine Calendar). The 1969 revision removed this as a duplication of the 21 January feast.[1] Agnes of Rome 2 Biography According to tradition, Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born 291 AD and raised in a Christian family. She suffered martyrdom at the age of twelve or thirteen during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, on 21 January 304. Agnes, whose name means “chaste” in Greek, was a beautiful young girl of wealthy family and therefore had many suitors of high rank. Details of her story are unreliable, but legend holds that the young men, slighted by Agnes's resolute devotion to religious purity, submitted her name to the authorities as a follower of Christianity.[2] The Prefect Sempronius condemned her to be dragged naked through the streets to a brothel. Various versions of the legend give different methods of escape from this predicament. In one, as she prayed, her hair grew and covered her body.[3] It was also said that all of the men who attempted to rape her were immediately struck blind. In another the son of the prefect is struck dead, but revived after Agnes prayed for him, causing her release. There is then a trial from which Sempronius excuses himself, and another figure presides, sentencing her to death. When led out to die she was tied to a stake, but the bundle of wood would not burn, or the flames parted away from her, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and beheaded her, or, in some other texts, stabbed her in the throat. It is also said that the blood of Agnes poured to the stadium floor where other Christians soaked up the blood with cloths. Agnes was buried beside the Via Nomentana in Rome. A few days after Agnes's death, her foster-sister, Saint Emerentiana, was found praying by her tomb; she claimed to be the daughter of Agnes's wet nurse, and was stoned to death after refusing to leave the place and reprimanding the pagans for killing her foster sister. Emerentiana was also later canonized. The daughter of Constantine I, Saint Constance, was also said to have been cured of leprosy after praying at Agnes's tomb. Emerentiana and Constance appear in the scenes from the life of Agnes on the 14th-century Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum. Agnes depicted on the Royal Gold Cup An early account of Agnes's death, stressing her young age, steadfastness and virginity, but not the legendary features of the tradition, is given by Saint Ambrose. Veneration Agnes's bones are conserved beneath the high altar in the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb that housed Agnes's tomb. Her skull is preserved in a separate chapel in the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone in Rome's Piazza Navona. Patronage Saint Agnes is the patron saint of young girls. Folk custom called for them to practise rituals on Saint Agnes' Eve (20–21 January) with a view to discovering their future husbands. This superstition has been immortalised in John Keats's poem, "The Eve of Saint Agnes". Agnes of Rome 3 Churches • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Naples, Florida[4] • Sant'Agnese in Agone • Sant'Agnese fuori le mura • Church of St Agnes, Cornwall, England • St. Agnes' Church, New York City • Mission Santa Inés, Solvang, California • St. Agnes Catholic Church, San Francisco, California • St. Agnes Catholic Church, San Diego, California • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Charleston, West Virginia • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana • St. Agnes Parish, Roeland Park, Kansas • St. Agnes Parish, Springfield, Illinois • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Hubbard, Oregon • St. Agnes Church, Little Village, Chicago, Illinois Santa Inés, Guarino, 1650. • St. Agnes Anglican Parish, Grants Town, New Providence • Parish of St. Agnes Cathedral, Rockville Centre, NY • St. Agnes Catholic Church (Our Lady of Hope Parish), Blackwood, New Jersey • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Concord, California • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Morrisdale, Pennsylvania • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Phoenix, Arizona • St. Agnes Parish Almar, Caloocan Philippines • St. Agnes Mission, Mirando City, Texas • St. Agnes Catholic Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania • St. Agnes Catholic Church, Baltimore, Maryland • St. Agnes Anglican Church, Kloof, South Africa [5] Schools • St. Agnes Catholic School, Roeland Park, Kansas • St. Agnes Catholic Grade School, Charleston, West Virginia • St. Agnes Catholic School, Springfield, Illinois • St. Agnes Elementary School, Ft. Wright, Kentucky • St. Agnes Convent School - Mumbai - India • St. Agnes Convent School - Howrah - India • St. Agnes Academy- Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines • St. Agnes Academy - Houston, Texas • St Agnes Catholic Grade School, Louisville, Ky • St. Agnes Cathedral School, Rockville Centre, NY • St. Agnes Girl's School, Balangoda, Sri Lanka. • St. Agnes Catholic School, Los Angeles, CA • St. Agnes Catholic Elementary School, Phoenix, AZ • St. Agnes School, Concord, CA • St. Agnes School, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India • St. Agnes School, Towanda, Pennsylvania • St. Agnes School, Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, Philippines Agnes of Rome 4 • St. Agnes Catholic School, West Chester, Pennsylvania • St. Agnes School, Baltimore, Maryland Legacy The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes is a Roman Catholic religious community for women based in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1858, by Father Caspar Rehrl, an Austrian missionary, who established the sisterhood of pioneer women under the patronage of St. Agnes of Rome, to whom he had a particular devotion. It is customary on her feast day for two lambs to be brought from the Trappist abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome to be blessed by the Pope. On Holy Thursday they are shorn, and from the wool is woven the pallium which the pope gives to a newly consecrated metropolitan archbishop as a sign of his jurisdiction and his union with the pope. Iconography Since the Middle Ages, Saint Agnes has been represented with a lamb, both the symbol of her virginal innocence and a pun on her name.[6] She is also represented as a young girl in robes, holding a palm branch in her hand with a lamb at her feet or in her arms. In popular culture Hrotsvitha, the tenth-century nun and poetess, wrote a play the subject of which was Saint Agnes. Grace Andreacchi wrote a play based on the legends surrounding the martyrdom of Saint Agnes. In the historical novel Fabiola or, the Church of the Catacombs, written by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman in 1854, Agnes is the soft-spoken teenage cousin and confidant of the protagonist, the beautiful noblewoman Fabiola. Gallery 9th-century Mosaic in the church 16th-century The saint's Statue in a of St. Praxedes, Rome polychrome statue is among church on Gora statue in Burgos those on the Oljka Cathedral, colonnade in Spain St. Peter's Square Agnes of Rome 5 Saint Agnes (Massimo Matthias Grünewald, c. 1500, Statue of Saint Agnes, Santa Inês (Saint Agnes) Stanzione) in Museu tempera on coniferous wood, Camarin, Caloocan City, by Francisco de Zurbarán Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Kunsammlungen der Veste Philippines Coburg, Coburg. References [1] Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 114 [2] "Our Patroness", Saint Agnes Cathedral, Rockville Centre, New York (http:/ / www. stagnescathedral. org/ Our Parish/ Patroness. html) [3] "St. Agnes of Rome", Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (http:/ / www. antiochian. org/ node/ 17341) [4] http:/ / www. stagnesnaples. org/ [5] http:/ / stagnes. org. za/ home/ [6] Kirsch, Johann Peter. "St. Agnes of Rome." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 24 Apr. 2013 (http:/ / www. newadvent. org/ cathen/ 01214a. htm) External links Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Eve of St. Agnes Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Agnes, Saint. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint Agnes of Rome. • The Life of St. Agnes of Rome, Virgin & Martyr of the Catholic Church (http:/ / www. catholicrevelations. com/ category/ saints/ the-life-of-st-agnes-of-rome-a-saint-virgin-and-martyr-of-the-catholic-church. html) • Satucket.com (http:/ / www. satucket. com/ lectionary/ Agnes. htm), St. Agnes of Rome • Blogspot.com (http:/ / graceandreacchi. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 01/ agnes-wise-and-foolish-virgin. html), St Agnes in literature • "Saint Agnes" (http:/ / www. christianiconography.
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