A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 56
en the prefect questioned his son,he told his father of his love for Agnes, and that, unless she wouldbe his wife, he must die. Tlien Sempronius begged of Agnes andher parents that she should marry his son; but she replied, as before,that she preferred her betrothed to the son of the prefect.… … (M. Schoen.) St. Agnes. S8 LEGENDS AND STORIES husband, she must become a Vestal Virgin. But she refused withscorn the worship of vain images, and declared that she would servenone but Jesus. Sempronius then threatened her with the mosthorrid death, and put her in chains, and dragged her to the…
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