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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Agnes
DESCRIPTION:ST AGNES \nFrom The Oxford Dictionary of Saints \n◊◊◊ \nThe earliest witness to her cult is the Deposito Martyrum of 354. About \nthe same time a basilica was built in her honor over her grave in the Via \nNomemtana. Her name was in the Roman Canon; her feast was kept in \nnumerous churches of both East and West from early times. This evidence from \ncalendars and martyrologies make her one of the most famous and universal of \nthe early Roman martyrs. Writers who praised her include Ambrose\, Jerome\, \nand Prudenius. \nHer 5th-century Acts\, wrongly attributed to Ambrose\, made her a girl of \nonly thirteen who refused marriage because of her dedication to Christ. Calmly \nand deliberately she preferred death to any violation of her consecrated \nvirginity; for this reason she has been venerated by many nations. She was \nkilled by the sword…piercing her throat. Legendary accretions to this simple \nstory were numerous\, but unhistorical. \nThrough the remembrance of the word agnus (lamb) to Agnes\, her \nprincipal iconographic emblem is a lamb\, at least from the time of the 6th \ncentury mosaics at San Apollinare Nunco at Ravenna. On her feast are blessed \nthe lambs which produce the wool from which pallia for archbishops are woven \nby the nuns of St Agnes’s convent in Rome. In England\, as elsewhere\, her cult \nwas ancient and widespread\, with five early church dedications. \nWith other virgin martyrs she also appears…frequently in late medieval \nstained glass\, but the finest cycle of her life story is on a gold and enamel cup at \nthe British museum\, which formerly belonged to the Duke of Berry and passed \nthrough the Duke of Bedford to King Henry VI… Formerly the Roman calendar \ncontained a second feast in her honor on January 29th. This seems to have \ncommemorated her birthday rather than her octave.
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