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See also: AGNES, See also:SAINT , a virgin See also:martyr of the See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church. The See also:legend of St Agnes is that she was a See also:Roman maid, by See also:birth a
See also:Christian, who suffered martyrdom when but thirteen during the reign of the See also:emperor See also:Diocletian, on the 21st of See also:January 304. The See also:prefect Sempronius wished her to marry his son, and on her refusal condemned her to be outraged before her See also:execution, but her See also:honour was miraculously preserved. When led out to See also:die she was tied to a stake, but the faggots would not See also:burn, where-upon the officer in See also:charge of the troops See also:drew his See also:sword and struck off her See also:head. St Agnes is the See also:patron saint of See also:young girls, who, in rural districts, formerly indulged in all sorts of See also:quaint See also:country magic on St Agnes' See also:Eve (2oth–21st January) with a view to discovering their future husbands. This superstition has been immortalized in See also:Keats's poem, " The Eve of St Agnes." St Agnes's bones are supposed to See also:rest in the church of her name at See also:Rome, originally built by See also:Constantine and repaired by See also:Pope See also:Honorius in the 7th See also:century. Here on her festival (21st of January) two See also:lambs are specially blessed after pontifical high See also:mass, and their See also:wool is later See also:woven into pallia (see See also:PALLIUM).
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