Unless otherwise stated, Text is taken from
“The Liturgical Year”, by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.
Christmas, Book II.
Fourth Edition.
Volume 3.
Saint Agnes.
Artist: Domenichino (1581–1641).
Date: 1620.
Current location: Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, England.
References: The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art
(Wikimedia Commons)
Church of Saint Agnes Outside-the-Walls
(Sant’Agnese fuori-le-mura), Rome, Italy.
Photo taken during a survey of Roman Monuments, 1911 [1].
Date: 1911.
This File: 16 November 2005.
User: Panairjdde
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The following three paragraphs are
taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Church of Saint Agnes Outside-the-Walls
Minor Basilica, in Rome, on a site sloping down from
The Via Nomentana, which runs North-East out of the City,
still under its ancient name.
What are said to be the remains of Saint Agnes are below The High Altar. The Church is over one of the Catacombs of Rome, where Saint Agnes was originally buried, and which may still be visited from the Church. The Church was built by Pope Honorius I in the 7th-Century A.D., and largely retains its original structure, despite many changes to the decoration.
Pope Honorius and another Pope, is largely in its original condition. The current Cardinal Priest, of the Titulus S. Agnetis Extra mœnia, is Camillo Ruini.
Lazzaro Morelli Statue (1661-1662) of Saint Agnes,
on the Colonnade in Saint Peter's Square, Rome.
[Editor: Lazzaro Morelli (1619 – 1690) was
This File: 6 November 2011.
User: Cloudbound
Photo: {{Cc-by-2.0|Photographed by
Richard Stracke in St. Peter's Square}}
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English: Saint Agnes.
Spanish: Santa Inés.
Artist: Cesare Dandini (1596–1657).
Source/Photographer: www.pintura.aut.org
(Wikimedia Commons)
Christmas.
28 January.
Saint Agnes.
Her Second Feast.
Five days after the Martyrdom of the Virgin Emerentiana [Editor: Feast Day 23 January], the parents of the
glorious Saint Agnes visited the tomb of their child
during the night. There to weep and Pray. It was the
eighth day since Saint Agnes’ Martyrdom.
Whilst they were thinking upon the cruel death, which, though it enriched their child with a Martyr's Palm, had deprived them of her society, Agnes suddenly appeared to them: She was encircled with a bright light, and wore a Crown on her head, and was surrounded by a Choir of Virgins of dazzling beauty. On her Right-Hand, there stood a beautiful White Lamb,
the emblem of The Divine Spouse of Agnes.
Turning towards her parents, she said to them: “Weep not over my death: For I am now in Heaven, together with these Virgins, living with Him whom I loved on Earth with my whole Soul.”
It is to Commemorate this glorious apparition that The Holy Church has instituted this Feast, which is called Saint Agnes’ Second Feast (Sanctæ Agnetis Secundo).
Let us Pray to this fervent spouse of The Divine Lamb, that she intercede for us with Him, and present us to Him in this Life, until it be given to us to possess Him face-to-face in Heaven.
Let us unite with The Church in the following Prayer,
which she uses in today's Office:
Antiphon.
Stans a dextris ejus Agnus nive candidior.
Christus sibi Sponsam et Martyrem consecravit.
Versicle.
Specie tua, et pulchritudine tua.
Responsary.
Intende, prospere procede et regna.
Oremus.
Deus qui nos annua beatæ Agnetis
Virginis et Martyris tuæ solemnitate lætificas:
da quæsumus, ut quam veneramur officio,
etiam piæ conversationis sequamur exemplo.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.
Antiphon.
Standing at her Right-Hand,
as a Lamb Whiter than Snow,
Christ Consecrated her to Himself
as His Spouse and Martyr.
Versicle.
With thy comeliness and thy beauty.
Responsory.
Set out, proceed prosperously, and reign.
Let Us Pray.
O God, Who rejoicest us
by the yearly Solemnity of Blessed Agnes,
the Virgin and Martyr: Grant, we beseech Thee,
that we may imitate her life,
to whose memory we pay this honour.
Through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
The Second Feast of Saint Agnes.
Virgin and Martyr.
28 January.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
28 January is the Birthday of Saint Agnes. As it coincided with her "Octave Day", a legend grew, saying that she appeared on this day to her parents Praying at her tomb, surrounded by a "bevy of Virgins" (Introit), resplendent with light.
“On her Right-Hand was a Lamb, Whiter than Snow: It was Christ, Consecrating His union with His Spouse.” [Antiphon of Vespers at The Magnificat].
Mass: Vultum tuum.
