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<p> <b> [[Agnes]] </b> , M. a virgin, 12 or 13 years old, beheaded at [[Rome]] under Diocletian, celebrated by [[Ambrose]] ( <i> de Offic. </i> i. 41; <i> de Virg. ad Marcell. </i> i. 2), [[Jerome]] ( <i> Ep. </i> 97 <i> ad demetriad. </i> ), [[Augustine]] ( <i> Serm. </i> 273, 286, and 354), Sulp. Sever. ( <i> Dial. </i> ii. 14), Prudentius ( περὶ Στεφάνων , xiv.), Venant. [[Fortunatus]] ( <i> Poem. </i> vii. iii. 35), Aldhelm ( <i> de Virgin. </i> ); and by her <i> Acta </i> in [[Syriac]] in Assemani, <i> Act. Mart. </i> ii. 148 seq.; besides <i> Acta </i> falsely attributed to St. Ambrose, a doubtful homily of St. Maxim. Taurin., and some verses questionably assigned to pope Damasus. Her name is in the Carthag. Cal. of <i> c. </i> 450, Jan. 21; in Ruinart, p. 695. A church at Rome, in her honour, said to have been built under [[Constantine]] the Great, was repaired by [[Pope]] Honorius, A.D. 625–638, and another was built at Rome by [[Innocent]] X. (Assemani, <i> Act. Mart. </i> ii. 154, 155). [[See]] also <i> Act. SS. </i> Jan. 21, on which day her name stands in the black-letter calendar of our Prayer-book. Baeda and [[Usuard]] place it on Jan. 23; the <i> Menolog. </i> and <i> [[Menaea]] </i> on [[July]] 5. </p> <p> [A.W.H.] </p>

<p> <b> [[Agnes]] </b> , M. a virgin, 12 or 13 years old, beheaded at [[Rome]] under Diocletian, celebrated by [[Ambrose]] ( <i> de Offic. </i> i. 41; <i> de Virg. ad Marcell. </i> i. 2), [[Jerome]] ( <i> Ep. </i> 97 <i> ad demetriad. </i> ), [[Augustine]] ( <i> Serm. </i> 273, 286, and 354), Sulp. Sever. ( <i> Dial. </i> ii. 14), Prudentius ( περὶ Στεφάνων , xiv.), Venant. [[Fortunatus]] ( <i> Poem. </i> vii. iii. 35), Aldhelm ( <i> de Virgin. </i> ); and by her <i> Acta </i> in [[Syriac]] in Assemani, <i> Act. Mart. </i> ii. 148 seq.; besides <i> Acta </i> falsely attributed to St. Ambrose, a doubtful homily of St. Maxim. Taurin., and some verses questionably assigned to pope Damasus. Her name is in the Carthag. Cal. of <i> c. </i> 450, Jan. 21; in Ruinart, p. 695. A church at Rome, in her honour, said to have been built under [[Constantine]] the Great, was repaired by [[Pope]] Honorius, A.D. 625–638, and another was built at Rome by [[Innocent]] X. (Assemani, <i> Act. Mart. </i> ii. 154, 155). [[See]] also <i> Act. SS. </i> Jan. 21, on which day her name stands in the black-letter calendar of our Prayer-book. Baeda and [[Usuard]] place it on Jan. 23; the <i> Menolog. </i> and <i> [[Menaea]] </i> on [[July]] 5. </p> <p> [A.W.H.] </p>