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Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c. 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]
In 1253, Agnes returned to Assisi to nurse her sister Clare during the latter's illness. Shortly thereafter Agnes died, on 16 November 1253. [4] Her remains were interred with those of her sister at the Basilica of St. Clare at Assisi. [1] Agnes's feast day is the anniversary of her death, 16 November.
Though Agnes died in 1282, she is still venerated by Christians around the world more than 700 years later. She was honored in 2011, the 800th anniversary of her birth, as the Saint of the Overthrow of Communism, [ 15 ] with a year dedicated to her by Catholics in the Czech Republic .
The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes (or St. Agnes' Eve). St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in 4th-century Rome. The eve falls on 20 January; the feast day on the 21st. The divinations referred to by Keats in this poem are referred to by John Aubrey in his Miscellanies (1696) as being ...
Agnes of Montepulciano, OP (28 January 1268 – 20 April 1317) [1] was a Dominican prioress in medieval Tuscany who was known as a miracle worker during her lifetime. She is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church .
Her father Wenceslaus II died just six days after her birth, on 21 June 1305, in Prague. [2] His heir Wenceslaus III was assassinated one year later, in Olomouc, and with him the Přemyslid dynasty became extinct. Agnes' mother, Elisabeth Richeza, subsequently married Rudolf I of Bohemia, son of Albert I of Germany on 16 October 1306. [3]
Sant'Agnese in Agone (also called Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona) is a 17th-century Baroque church in Rome, Italy.It faces onto the Piazza Navona, one of the main urban spaces in the historic centre of the city and the site where the Early Christian Saint Agnes was martyred in the ancient Stadium of Domitian.
St. Agnes of Poitiers is a French saint and abbess, who was "recognized for her holiness and intelligence" and called "model of the conventual life". [1] She served as abbess of Holy Cross convent in Poitiers , France until her death in 586.