Because of the nature of her martyrdom, the Church honors St. Agnes as the patron saint of girls, chastity, virgins, and victims of rape. A lamb is wreathed in flowers during a special Mass for the ...

Agnes is one of those seven women (along with Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy et al.) mentioned in the First Eucharistic Prayer. All seven were martyrs. We met St. Lucy last month. We’ll meet St.

In a traditional ceremony marking the feast of Saint Agnes, Pope Benedict blessed a pair of lambs whose wool will be used to make palliums for the Church's new metropolitan archbishops. On Jan. 21, ...

Two chaste white lambs pomped with ribbons looked at the Pope last week, on the anniversary of St. Agnes’ deathday. They had just come from blessing in the Church of St. Agnes on the Via Nomen-tana, ...

Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.’” At first glance, this selection from the Gospel of Mark might ...

The stories surrounding St. Agnes’ life and death are varied. We know the place of her burial, her approximate age, and the place where she was martyred. Much less is known about her life, though ...