St. Agnes Ceramic Plaque
Item Number: 13135
[died c. 350], having been denounced as a Christian during the persecution by the Emperor Diocletian, withstood her depraved prosecutors with such constancy and equanimity that her person and martyrdom have been venerated since the fourth century. St. Agnes is patron of young girls and also of women threatened by gross bodily insult or rape. Her feast is January 21.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 01/21
Tridentine Calendar - 01/21
Patron Of:
Betrothed Couples, Chastity, Crops, Girl Scouts
Profile
At age 12 or 13 Agnes was ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods and lose her virginity by rape. She was taken to a Roman temple to Minerva (Athena), and when led to the altar, she made the Sign of the Cross. She was threatened, then tortured when she refused to turn against God. Several young men presented themselves, offering to marry her, whether from lust or pity is not known. She said that to do so would be an insult to her heavenly Spouse, that she would keep her consecrated virginity intact, accept death, and see Christ. Martyr Foster-sister of Saint Emerentiana. Mentioned in first Eucharistic prayer. On her feast day two lambs are blessed at her church in Rome, and then their wool is woven into the palliums (bands of white wool) which the pope confers on archbishops as symbol of their jurisdiction.
Died
beheaded and burned, or tortured and stabbed to death, or stabbed in the throat (sources vary) on 21 January 254 or 304 (sources vary) at Rome; buried beside the Via Nomentana in Rome
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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