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SAINT OF THE DAY (January 21)
On January 21, the Roman Catholic Church honors the virgin and martyr St. Agnes, who suffered death for her consecration to Christ.
Although the details of Agnes' life are mostly unknown, the story of her martyrdom has been passed on with reverence since the fourth century.
On the feast day of the young martyr – whose name means “lamb” in Latin – the Pope traditionally blesses lambs, whose wool will be used to make the white pallium worn by archbishops.
Born into a wealthy family during the last decade of the third century, Agnes lived in Rome during the last major persecution of the early Church under Emperor Diocletian.
Though he was lenient toward believers for much of his rule, Diocletian changed course in 302, resolving to wipe out the Church in the empire.
Agnes came of age as the Church was beginning to suffer under a set of new laws decreed by Diocletian and his co-ruler Galerius in 303.
The emperor and his subordinate called for churches to be destroyed and their books burned.
Subsequent orders led to the imprisonment and torture of clergy and laypersons, for the sake of compelling them to worship the emperor instead of Christ.
Meanwhile, Agnes had become a young woman of great beauty and charm, drawing the attention of suitors from the first ranks of the Roman aristocracy.
But in keeping with the words of Christ and Saint Paul, she had already decided on a life of celibacy for the sake of God's kingdom.
To all interested men, she explained that she had already promised herself to a heavenly and unseen spouse.
These suitors both understood Agnes' meaning and resented her resolution.
Some of the men, possibly looking to change her mind, reported her to the state as a believer in Christ.
Agnes was brought before a judge who tried first to persuade her and then to threaten her into renouncing her choice not to marry for the Lord's sake.
When the judge showed her the various punishments he could inflict – including fire, iron hooks, or the rack that destroyed the limbs by stretching – Agnes smiled and indicated she would suffer them willingly.
But she was brought before a pagan altar instead and asked to make an act of worship in accordance with the Roman state religion.
When Agnes refused, the judge ordered that she should be sent to a house of prostitution, where the virginity she had offered to God would be violated.
Agnes predicted that God would not allow this to occur, and her statement proved true.
Legends say that the first man to approach her in the brothel was struck blind by a sudden flash of light, and others opted not to repeat his mistake.
But one of the men who had at first sought to make Agnes his own, now lobbied the judge for her execution.
In this respect, the suitor obtained his desire when the public official sentenced her to die by beheading.
The executioner gave her one last chance to spare her life by renouncing her consecration to Christ – but Agnes refused, made a short prayer, and courageously submitted to death.
St. Agnes, who died in 304, was venerated as a holy martyr from the fourth century onward.
She is mentioned in the Latin Church's most traditional Eucharistic prayer, the Roman Canon.
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“These days, he lived in a tiny room above the St. Agnes rectory. The entire place had been built in the late seventeenth century and looked it."
ooohhh m*ggie why would you do this to me. not only is the oldest Catholic church in Virginia is from 1795, the late eighteenth century, but the colony of Virginia was founded by Anglicans with no0o0o0 interest in religious plurality until compelled by, like, the first amendment. idk about virginia but there's still cultural differences between catholic and protestant communities in MA (especially irish catholic and protestants!) which might have been really interesting to explore in lynch family mythology, assimilation, etc... but no.
Virginia has fewer than twenty extant pre-1700 structures, all in the eastern part of the state. Even if the structure were that old -- say, a first-period Protestant church later converted to a Catholic one; not common but not unthinkable, if not accurate to this setting -- any extant seventeenth-century structure would be listed as an historic property, probably as a national historic landmark, almost certainly maintained to a decent standard by a nonprofit trust and board. and not really on the market for a broke seventeen-year-old to rent out.
i truly love st. agnes as a setting but the only info she gives us about it RIPS me right out of there. move the setting for the whole series to massachusetts and we're good to go tho!
#im so sorry but this is who i am#i just can't suspend my disbelief about historic ecclesiastical preservation#adam is living the historic property caretaker dream#and summoning vines in the lead pipes#maybe that's part of his problem#st. agnes#the best thing about TDT: heartfelt emotional breakdowns in the greater boston metropolitan area 495 corridor!#this is why i almost never read fiction and instead reread abbot lowell cummings' seminal framed houses of the massachusetts bay colony#TRC
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Saint Agnes Feast Day - January 21st
St. Agnes is the patron saint of virgins. A beautiful girl of a wealthy Christian family back in the year 304 CE, she was martyred at the age of thirteen because she refused the advances of a high-born Roman suitor. From then, on January 20th, the eve of St. Agnes feast day, when properly implored by a virgin, St. Agnes reveals in a dream the man the virgin will marry. It’s real, look it up.
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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT AGNES OF ROME
The Patron of Betrothed Couples
Feast Day: January 21
"Christ is my Spouse, He chose me first and His I will be. He made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve."
According to tradition, Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility, born in 291 AD and raised in an early Christian family. Agnes, whose name means 'lamb', was a beautiful Roman girl who refused marriage because of her dedication to Jesus Christ.
She answered her suitors that she had consecrated her virginity to a heavenly spouse, who could not be seen by mortal eyes. Those young men, finding her esolution unwavering, accused her of being a Christian.
In 304 AD at the age of twelve, she was brought before a judge, the prefect Sempronius, and remained unshaken by either his kindness or threats.
When fires and instruments of torture were placed before her eyes, she resisted with courage and faith. She was sent to a house of prostitution, but the young man who ventured to touch her, lost his sight. Shortly thereafter, she was led out and bound 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 her blood poured to the stadium floor where other Christians soaked it up with cloths.
Agnes was buried beside the Via Nomentana in Rome. A few days after her death, her foster-sister, Emerentiana, was found praying by her tomb; she claimed to be the daughter of Agnes' 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 canonised as a saint.
Before Agnes was executed, she said: 'You may stain your sword with my blood, but you will never be able to profane my body, which is consecrated to Christ.'
Every year on January 21st, two lambs are blessed at the Sant'Agnese fuori le mura (Saint Agnes Outside the Walls) in Rome. Their wool is then woven into pallia that, on the vigil of the feasts of Sts. Peter and Paul, are laid upon the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica. These pallia are given to the archbishops as a token of their jurisdiction and pastoral service, which they derive from Peter and his successors.
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Plant of the Day
Friday 22 March 2024
Edging the path to this front door was Leucojum aestivum (summer snowflake, summer snowdrop, Loddon lily, St Agnes' flower). Each deciduous bulb can reach 50cm tall, with long, narrow leaves and green-tipped white flowers in spring.
Jill Raggett
#Leucojum#summer snowflake#summer snowdrop#Loddon lily#St Agnes' flower#bulbs#bulb#bulbous#perennial#horticulture#plants#garden#gardens#front garden#path#white flowers
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I'm rereading the Raven cycle and as someone who moved to another country far away from what is supposed to be my home, the themes of home really do hit hard.
Gansey, searching for a place to call home ever since he was a child, only to realize it might be people instead,
Blue, having a safe space to return to and feeling like she belongs while simultaneously missing something crucial she can't name,
Adam, escaping his abusive father, his home that never felt like one, to carve his own space in the world where he truly feels like he is a person and
Ronan, having had such a beautiful childhood home for it only to be taken away from him but he held onto the concept of home he built in his head and in the end it paid off because he got it back and he gained a new home along the way amongst his friends.
They all redefine their notion of home throughout the series and I think they are able to (re)claim places as their homes because they found homes in each other that comforted them when their spaces couldn't.
#the raven cycle#raven boys#gansey#richard campbell gansey iii#ronan lynch#adam parrish#blue sargent#300 fox way#st agnes#the barns#monmouth manufacturing#Henrietta#home#these characters make me cry regularly
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Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
1268 - 1317
Feast day: April 20
Agnes became known as a visionary and performed miracles.
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano was born into a noble Italian family. At a young age, her spiritual life consisted of prayer and penance. At 9 she entered the local Franciscan monastery and was elected Abbess at 15. After she had a vision from St. Dominic, she led her order to embrace the rule of St. Augustine as members of the Dominicans. Agnes was gifted with many visions, once even holding the child Jesus, and receiving Holy Communion from an angel. She interceded for people suffering from mental and physical illness. She died after a long illness and was found to be incorrupt with a perfumed liquid that flowed from her hands and feet.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)
#St Agnes of Montepulciano#Catholic faith#Catholic visionary#catholic saint#artist on tumblr#catholic art
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#best picard character competition#dr agnes jurati#agnes jurati#dr Jurati#q#q Star Trek#st#pic#best star trek character competition
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I'm sorry to post this as an image, I don't have energy right now to fenagle the formatting on tumblr so the poem looks right, but I want to share on her feast a poem for St Agnes, based on some bio things I've heard from legends about her in the past, and so forth. Hope you like it!
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SAINT OF THE DAY (January 21)
On January 21, the Roman Catholic Church honors the virgin and martyr St. Agnes, who suffered death for her consecration to Christ.
Although the details of Agnes' life are mostly unknown, the story of her martyrdom has been passed on with reverence since the fourth century.
On the feast day of the young martyr – whose name means “lamb” in Latin – the Pope traditionally blesses lambs, whose wool will be used to make the white pallium worn by archbishops.
Born into a wealthy family during the last decade of the third century, Agnes lived in Rome during the last major persecution of the early Church under the Emperor Diocletian.
Though he was lenient toward believers for much of his rule, Diocletian changed course in 302, resolving to wipe out the Church in the empire.
Agnes came of age as the Church was beginning to suffer under a set of new laws decreed by Diocletian and his co-ruler Galerius in 303.
The emperor and his subordinate called for churches to be destroyed and their books burned.
Subsequent orders led to the imprisonment and torture of clergy and laypersons, for the sake of compelling them to worship the emperor instead of Christ.
Meanwhile, Agnes had become a young woman of great beauty and charm, drawing the attention of suitors from the first ranks of the Roman aristocracy.
But in keeping with the words of Christ and Saint Paul, she had already decided on a life of celibacy for the sake of God's kingdom.
To all interested men, she explained that she had already promised herself to a heavenly and unseen spouse.
These suitors both understood Agnes' meaning and resented her resolution. Some of the men, possibly looking to change her mind, reported her to the state as a believer in Christ.
Agnes was brought before a judge who first tried to persuade her and then to threaten her into renouncing her choice not to marry for the Lord's sake.
When the judge showed her the various punishments he could inflict – including fire, iron hooks, or the rack that destroyed the limbs by stretching – Agnes smiled and indicated she would suffer them willingly.
But she was brought before a pagan altar instead and asked to make an act of worship in accordance with the Roman state religion.
When Agnes refused, the judge ordered that she should be sent to a house of prostitution, where the virginity she had offered to God would be violated.
Agnes predicted that God would not allow this to occur, and her statement proved true. Legends say that the first man to approach her in the brothel was struck blind by a sudden flash of light, and others opted not to repeat his mistake.
But one of the men who had at first sought to make Agnes his own, now lobbied the judge for her execution.
In this respect, the suitor obtained his desire when the public official sentenced her to die by beheading.
The executioner gave her one last chance to spare her life by renouncing her consecration to Christ – but Agnes refused, made a short prayer, and courageously submitted to death.
St. Agnes, who died in 304, was venerated as a holy martyr from the fourth century onward.
She is mentioned in the Latin Church's most traditional Eucharistic prayer, the Roman Canon.
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So. I saw a post about St. Agatha (really cool woman), and decide to look St. Agnes up, just to see any possible symbolism since Maggie is this type of author. Here is the story, I will let you came to your own conclusions.
At the age of 13, St. Agnes was full of suitors (since she was beautiful and rich), but she did not want to get marry, she was consecrated by God that liked her virginity a lot. The thing here is: all of this was before Christianity become legal in Ancient Rome, so when she refused to marry the son of the Mayor of Rome, he told his father about her faith.
She was arrested and (after a trial that everyone says was forged in many ways) was condemned to, between many other things, work in the temple of Vesta, the roman goddess of home, ceremonial fire and fireplaces, the protector of life. This punishment would serve as excuse to her not marrying anyone and keeping her virginity, since all the priestesses of Vesta ensured their chastity and purity.
She still refused to let go of her faith, even if just in the eyes of society, and said to the Mayor: If I refused your son, who is a man, how can you think that I would accept paying honor to a statue? My husband is not from this earth. I'm young, it's true, but faith is not measured by years but by works. God measures the soul, not age. As for the gods, they may even be furious, I don't fear them. My God is love.
The Mayor decided to give her a worst punishment then. She was exposed naked in a brothel at the Agnolo circus, in Rome, for everyone to see.
But God came in her protection and cover her in a celestial light, so no one could see her (a man that was trying to grab her at the time become blind, but St. Agnes was kind and pray for him, so God give his vision back in a way that he no longer could see a naked girl when looking to her, but the daughter of God). Her hair then start growing really fast to protect her body from being seem, even when the light vanish. A second man tried to rape her, and died in the spot, but St. Agnes pity him and ask God to heal him, so he resurrected.
The Mayor got really scared at the hole ordeal and send her to the vice-mayor to take care of, since he was a much crueler man. He tried to burn her alive, but the flames didn't touch her. So he tortured her in every way imaginable, but she kept her calm all the time. Then he demanded that they cut her head.
St. Agnes died at 13, virgin, unmarried and holly in all aspects. She was later declared patron saint of chastity, children, gardeners, girls, grooms, rape victims and virgins.
#St. Agnes Church#trc#the raven cycle#adam parrish#maggie stiefvater#I am a bit disturbed#sorry about it#Also#try to look up St. Agnes prayers
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