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St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, according to the Roman Martyrology, was 12 years old when she was executed, being stabbed in the throat, during the persecutions authorized by Emperor Diocletian ca. 305 CE. Agnes was buried in the cemetary on the Via Nomentana, where a church was later built ca. 350 CE on the site of the cemetery. In the past, the Feast of St. Agnes was the occasion for the blessing of lambs, whose wool was used by the Sisters of St. Agnes in Rome to weave the palliums of archbishops and patriarchs of the Roman Catholic Church.

In art, St. Agnes is shown with a lamb and palm branch, the latter being the symbol of a martyr. She is universally revered. St. Agnes is the protector of virgins, betrothed women (Agnes chose Christ as her bridegroom), and gardeners, since virginity is depicted as a closed garden known as the hortus conclusus. The feast day of St. Agnes is 21 January.

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