Because of the nature of her martyrdom, the Church honors St. Agnes as the patron saint of girls, chastity, virgins, and victims of rape. A lamb is wreathed in flowers during a special Mass for the ...

Agnes is one of those seven women (along with Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy et al.) mentioned in the First Eucharistic Prayer. All seven were martyrs. We met St. Lucy last month. We’ll meet St.

Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.’” At first glance, this selection from the Gospel of Mark might ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.2.0113 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.2.0113 Copy URL Norbert Ott, “Mündlichkeit ...

Agnes and her grandmother entered the city of Rome just as the twilight had faded into night; and though Agnes, full of faith and enthusiasm, was longing to begin immediately the ecstatic vision of ...