A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 55
n the prefect questioned his son,he told his father of his love for Agnes, and that, unless she wouldbe his wife, he must die. Then Sempronius begged of Agnes andher parents that she should marry hi^ son; but she replied, as before,that she preferred her betrothed to the son of the prefect. Wlienhe… … S8 LEGENDS AXD STORIES husband, she must become a Vestal Virgin. But she refused withscorn the worship of vain images, and declared that she woulil servenone but Jesus. Sempronius then thieitened her with the mosthorrid death, and put her in chains, and dragged her to the altars ofthe fifods. But…
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