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CajunRick
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Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 12:39 am |
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Today, January 21, is the feast of St. Agnes. It is a significant feast in the life of the Church.
Aghes was a young girl who had taken a vow of chastity. She refused many suitors and was even sent to a brothel, but she accepted death rather than lose her virginity. She was 12 years old when she was martyred during the persecution of Diocletian. You can read more about her here.
Nuns of the Convent of St. Agnes raise spotless lambs whose wool is shorn to make the palliums worn by metropolitans. On the Feast of St. Agnes, the Holy Father blesses the palliums which will later be placed on his shoulders. The pallium, which has been worn by the Holy Father, will be given to metropolitans (usually Archbishops) as a sign of their apostolic succession and their unity with the Holy Father in faith. In turn, the metropolitan installs suffragan bishops in the dioceses of his province.
St. Agnes is one of the few saints mentioned in the first Eucharistic Prayer (the Roman Canon). She is the patron saint of young girls.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 12:48 am |
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22/01/2008
Benedict XVI continued the tradition of the symbolic lost sheep who is found, saved and carried on the shoulders of the Good Shepherd, as well as the Lamb Who is crucified for man's salvation.
Video of the blessing ceremony is available from H2Onews.org.
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 07:35 am |
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St. Agnes was the name of my section when I was in Grade 1. I can only remember her as a young girl with a lamb. And as a martyr who resisted her suitors. Thanks to kermie for that very nice trivia about the lamb and the pope. 
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