Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints (1902)
D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · London : G. Bell & sons · leaf 126
presented to thePope. The ceremony of the blessing of the lambs still takesplace on that day in S. Agnese fuori le Mura, and in theMonastery of the same name is kept a special breed of sheep,from the wool of which the archiepiscopal pallia are woven.Young girls invoke St. Agnes to insure the… … Alinari phofo\ [Duomo, Pisa ST. AGNESBy Andrea del Sarto To face p. 84 ST. AGNES 85 and she is one of the chosen patrons of the Order of Trini-tarians, founded in her native city in the twelfth century for therescue of Christians from slavery. St. Agnes was a very favourite Saint with Italian and…
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