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St. Agnes of Rome

A Roman girl martyred and buried near the Via Nomentana, so young that Ambrose put her age at twelve and Augustine at thirteen.

Feast January 21Rome

Canonized

St. Agnes of Rome (Catholic Encyclopedia)

Sources

  • Roman Martyrology, 21 January.
  • Catholic Encyclopedia (Herbermann, 1907-1913), 'St. Agnes of Rome' — assigns the feast to 21 January; notes Ambrose gives her age as twelve and Augustine as thirteen, and that the persecution in which she died is not known with certainty. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01214a.htm