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karrova · 3 months

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Giovanni Andrea Sirani

Saint Agnes

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koredzas · 11 months

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Andrea Previtali - Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors. 1520 - 1523

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artschoolglasses · 6 months

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Roundel with Saint Agnes, German, 1490

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bandsonfilm · 11 days

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Saint Agnes // MOTH Club // 15.04.2024

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mysterious-secret-garden · 10 months

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Julio Romero de Torres - The seath of Saint Agnes, 1920.

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twobrothersatwork · 1 month

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Taddeo di Bartolo (Italian, 1362-1422), Saint Agnes.

#catholicism #catholic saints #Saint Agnes #sant`agnese

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cvbarroso · 1 year

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Hodie XXI januarii... Sancta Agnetis, Virginis et Martyris.

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butterflies-dragons · 2 years

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Saint Agnes and Sansa Stark

A time ago I wrote a piece about the Blackwater Bay battle in Sansa's A Clash of Kings chapters. In that post I described Sansa as the incarnation of the Mother fighting with the devil represented by certain characters, especially by the hound, and how she prevailed over them with her prayers.

Well, yesterday I was thinking about the violence and brutality described in hagiography, especially the hagiography of female saints, which reminded me of my post, and then my mind associated Saint Agnes with Sansa Stark.

Who was Saint Agnes?

Agnes of Rome was a beautiful young girl of 12 or 13 years old. Sansa has the same age and her beauty is well known.

She was the daughter of a wealthy Christian family from Roman nobility. House Stark is one of the Great Houses of Westeros.

She had many suitors. Sansa has many suitors.

She refused all her suitors because she made a promise to God to remain a virgin. Sansa remains a virgin despite her forced marriage to Tyrion Lannister.

She was reported to the authorities for being a Christian, and was condemned to be dragged naked through the streets and raped at a brothel. Sansa was a hostage of the crown, stripped naked and tortured at court, threatened by rape several times.

Her hair grew to cover her naked body and any man who attempted to rape her was struck blind. Marillion tried to rape Sansa and later was cut and mutilated (fingers and eyes).

She was sentenced to death by fire, but the wood would not burn so she died by the sword. Sansa's head is wanted for kingslaying.

She died a virgin martyr.

She is the patron saint of girls, chastity, virgins, victims of sex abuse, betrothed couples and gardeners.

Her feast day is 21 January.

But the detail that really struck my mind from the life of Saint Agnes in relation to Sansa, was the white shining garment that God sent to the young martyr to cover her naked body, after hearing her prayers:

Then the infuriated judge bade men take off her garments, and lead her, thus naked, to the harlot's house; and commanded them to cry throughout the streets, and make this known. Lo then! God's power was mightily manifested, so that the maiden's hair covered her all about as soon as the executioners tore off her clothes; and the hair covered her alike on every side. Then they dragged the maiden to the harlots' house; but she at once found there a shining angel of God, so that no man, because of that great light, could either look upon or touch her, for the house all shone as the sun in the day-time; and the more closely they looked at her, the more their eyes were dazzled. Then Agnes prostrated herself, praying to the Almighty, and God thereupon sent her a shining tunic. Then she thanked Christ, and donned the clothing, which fitted her size very exactly, brightly shining, so that men might see that God had sent her the shining clothing. —VII Of Saint Agnes - Ælfric's Lives of Saints.

Then the judge all araged made to take off her clothes, and all naked to be led to the bordel. And thus St. Agnes that refused to do sacrifice to the idols, was delivered naked to go to the bordel, but anon as she was unclothed God gave to her such grace that the hairs of her head became so long that they covered all her body to her feet, so that her body was not seen. And when St. Agnes entered into the bordel anon she found the angel of God ready for to defend her, and environed St. Agnes with a bright clearness in such wise that no man might see her ne come to her. Then made she of the bordel her oratory, and in making her prayers to God she saw tofore her a white vesture, and anon therewith she clad her and said: I thank thee Jesu Christ which accountest me with thy virgins and hast sent me this vesture. All they that entered made honour and reverence to the great clearness that they saw about St. Agnes, and came out more devout and more clean than they entered. —Volumen II, Chapter XXIV Of Saint Agnes - The Golden Legend by Jacobus Voragine, translated by William Caxton.

This particular scene from the life of Saint Agnes has been depicted by painters like Ribera and Cowper, where an angel gave Saint Agnes the white shining garment to cover her naked body:

St. Agnes in Prison, 1641 - Jusepe de Ribera

St Agnes in Prison Receiving from Heaven the "Shining White Garment," 1905 - Frank Cadogan Cowper

Looks familiar?

While Saint Agnes's prayers were rewarded by God with a shining white garment to cover her naked body, in ASOIAF, Sansa Stark was given a -not so shining- white cloak to cover her naked and shivering body:

"Someone give the girl something to cover herself with," the Imp said. Sandor Clegane unfastened his cloak and tossed it at her. Sansa clutched it against her chest, fists bunched hard in the white wool. The coarse weave was scratchy against her skin, but no velvet had ever felt so fine. —A Clash of Kings - Sansa III When she crawled out of bed, long moments later, she was alone. She found his cloak on the floor, twisted up tight, the white wool stained by blood and fire. The sky outside was darker by then, with only a few pale green ghosts dancing against the stars. A chill wind was blowing, banging the shutters. Sansa was cold. She shook out the torn cloak and huddled beneath it on the floor, shivering. —A Clash of Kings - Sansa VII

Sadly, there were no angel or hero intervention there for Sansa. The givers of the stained white cloaks were the villains, an Imp and a hound.

Moreover, in the hound's case, he didn't do anything to prevent Sansa's beating and stripping until Tyrion's intervention, and he even tried to rape Sansa before leaving his stained white cloak on her bedchamber's floor, but it was Sansa's prayer to the Mother's mercy what kept him from raping her.

The hound was more evil than angel for Sansa, in accordance to the marked duality of his character, but also because in Martin's works, even the villains are capable of noble deeds, at least once or twice in their lives... Oh wait, even Lucifer, was an angel, a fallen angel.

So, are all these similarities just a coincidence? Has George taken inspiration from the life of saint Agnes for Sansa Stark? Is George even aware of the martyrdom of Saint Agnes? Probably. George is, after all, a catholic school boy fascinated by the hero saint that gave him his name: Saint George, the dragon slayer.

Saint Agnes is also the matter of one of John Keats's poems "The Eve of St. Agnes." And John Keats is one of George's favorite poets. Vincent, George's beast, often read Keats poems to Catherine, George's Beauty.

Keats's poem is alluded in Rudyard Kipling's short story "Wireless." And Rudyard Kipling is also one of George's favorite authors.

An scene from Keats's poems was depicted by John Everett Millais in his namesake piece "The Eve of St. Agnes." John Everett Millais was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. And the works from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's members are ones of George favorite paintings. Paintings full of beautiful redhead ladies.

Eve of St Agnes, c. 1863 - John Everett Millais

There you have it.

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i-am-the-quintessential-queer · 2 years

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‘We’re not scared, we’re not scared

You might be tough but we’re everywhere

We curse you once, curse you twice

The rats will run this town tonight~’🖤🦋

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satin-carmin · 1 year

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I got baby-soft skin and hungry teeth I'm a lily of the valley, but underneath -

Vampire, Saint Agnes

#vampire #vampirecore #vampire aesthetic #cannibalism #aimer = dévorer #yearning #saint agnes #punk #horror punk #yandere #yancore

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majestativa · 1 year

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I want to be holy like Agnes who flies on the wings of beetles singing to soothe me with her little girl’s voice: ‘Cast off the chains around your neck.’

Adélia Prado, The Mystical Rose: Selected Poems

#Brazilian #Adélia Prado #Saint Agnes #Agnes of Rome

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elvencantation · 2 years

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ma’am step on me

#blue reads comics #a transmigrator’s privilege #transmigration #isekai #transmigrator’s privilege #the perks of being an s class heroine #saint agnes

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maudeboggins · 2 years

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Saint Agnes

mid-16th century

#saints #renaissance #saint agnes #16th century #1500s

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bandsonfilm · 1 year

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Saint Agnes // The Black Heart // 20.04.2023

#Saint Agnes #bands on film #35mm #analogue #film photography #music photography #london #uk #the black heart #Camden

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NO PAPER. NO SCISSORS. ROCK PLAYLIST #2

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