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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Agnes, St.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A virgin who suffered martyrdom, was beheaded because the flames would not touch her body, under Diocletian in 303; represented in art as holding a palm-branch in her hand and a lamb at her feet or in her arms. Festival, Jan. 21.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Agnes, St.'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/agnes-st.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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