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see www.passionistnuns.org/Saints/StAgnes/index.htm
Like Saint Maria Goretti, she was a young girl who died defending her virginity. A beautiful girl, she refused marriage to a pagan, insisting she had no spouse but Jesus. After he turned her in for being a Christian in a time of persecution in the Roman Empire, she was ruthlessly executed. In a world with quite different values from hers, many from the first have much admired her and made her a favorite saint. She is one of the saints named in the mass itself, in the first eucharistic prayer.
Like Saint Maria Goretti, she was a young girl who died defending her virginity. A beautiful girl, she refused marriage to a pagan, insisting she had no spouse but Jesus. After he turned her in for being a Christian in a time of persecution in the Roman Empire, she was ruthlessly executed. In a world with quite different values from hers, many from the first have much admired her and made her a favorite saint. She is one of the saints named in the mass itself, in the first eucharistic prayer.