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January 21: Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr—Memorial

c. 291–c. 304
Patron Saint of those seeking chastity and purity, engaged couples, rape victims, gardeners, young girls, and Girl Scouts
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Version: Full – Short

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He who chose me first for Himself shall receive me. Why are you delaying, executioner?…She stood, she prayed, she bent down her neck. You could see the executioner tremble, as though he himself had been condemned, and his right hand shake, his face grow pale, as he feared the peril of another, while the maiden feared not for her own. ~De Virginibus, Saint Ambrose

Reflection: According to one tradition, the daughter of Emperor Constantine the Great—the first emperor to convert to Christianity and legalize its practice—contracted leprosy. Her name was Constantina. Seeking a cure, she approached the tomb of today’s young virgin-martyr and tearfully beseeched her intercession. The tradition further states that Con

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St. Agnes' Story

Saint Agnes’ Martyrdom

Text authored by Sister Rachel Doerfler, CSA

We are told that Agnes came from a wealthy and powerful Roman family. Because of this and because she radiated a beauty that came from deep within, she attracted many who sought her hand in marriage at the early age of thirteen. Early weddings were the custom and Agnes was often asked to give an explanation for rejecting the offers of the rich young men attracted to her.

Her response was always the same:

“Jesus is my love. I am already espoused to Him.” Their threats to report her as a Christian had no power over her. Finally, the son of the Roman Prefect, bringing many gifts and promises of even greater ones, went to her parents to ask her hand in marriage. When Agnes rejected him and his riches, he and his family made greater promises of riches, a palace, estates, numerous slaves and all the delights of life if she would say “Yes” to the proposal. Nothing could deter Agnes from her resolve to be the spouse of Christ. Finally, she was arrested for the crime of following the teachings of Jesu

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Agnes of Rome

Christian virgin and saint

For other uses, see Saint Agnes (disambiguation).

Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – 21 January 304) is a virgin martyr, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Anglican Communion and Lutheran Churches.^[1] She is one of several virgin martyrs commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass, and one of many Christians martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Agnes was born in 291 into Roman nobility, and raised as a Christian. She suffered martyrdom on 21 January 304, aged 12 or 13. Her high-ranking suitors, slighted by her resolute devotion to religious purity, sought to persecute her for her beliefs. Her father urged her to deny God, but she refused, and she was dragged naked through the streets to a brothel, then tried and sentenced to death. She was eventually beheaded, after attempts for her to be burnt at the stake failed. A few days after her death, her foster-sister Emerentiana was found praying by her tomb, and