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Saint Agnes (d. 304?). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Saint Agnes (d. 304?). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Saint Agnes (d. 304?) Virgin martyr of the Catholic Church. The legend of St. Agnes is that she was a Roman maid, by birth a Christian, who suffered martyrdom when but thirteen during the reign of the emperor Diocletian, on the 21st of January 304. The prefect Sempronius wished her to marry his son, and on her refusal condemned her to be outraged before her execution, but her honour was miraculously preserved. When led out to die she was tied to a stake, but the faggots would not burn, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and struck off her head. St. Agnes is the patron saint of young girls, who, in rural districts, formerly indulged in all sorts of quaint country magic on St. Agnes’ Eve (Jan. 20–21) with a view to discovering their future husbands. This superstition has been immortalized in Keats’s poem, “The Eve of St. Agnes.” St. Agnes’s bones are supposed to rest in the church of her name at Rome, originally built by Constantine and repaired by Pope Honorius in the 7th century. Here on her festival (Jan. 21) two lambs are specially blessed after pontifical high mass, and their wool is later woven into pallia. © 2022 WEHD.com

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