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Icons of St. Agnes, Virgin
& Martyr of Old Rome
Feasts: Jan. 21 (her martyrdom); Jan. 28 (the day she later
appeared to her parents to encourage them in Christ)
Top Icon: by the hand of
Mother Justina, Greek Old Calendarist Convent of St. Elizabeth, Etna,
California. This icon is now in Holy Theotokos Church, Austin, Texas.
Next Icon: from a mosaic in
the 6th-c. Church in Ravenna, Italy. Inscription: [Sct]A Agnes (sancta,
or holy, Agnes)
Next Icon: from St. Isaac of
Syria Skete, Boscobel, Wisconsin. Icon next to topmost is of unknown
provenance. The one under this last-named is by the hand of
iconographer Raymond Mastroberte of Pennsylvania and bears an
inscription in Polish. The next one down is available from http://www.ermey.ru/.
Next Icon: by the hand of a
French painter, 2002.
Next Icon: provenance shown on
the image.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance, but appears to be produced by Holy Transfiguration
Monastery.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance, shown with detail inset.
Bottom Icon: by the hand of
Fr. Gregory Abu-Asali, Buena Vista, Colorado.
Agnes is a near homonym for
Latin "Agnus," or Lamb. St. Agnes is shown with a lamb here.
Traditionally, the omophoria or pallia for Archbishops in the West were
woven from the lambs tended by the nuns of St. Agnes in the City of
Rome. At Canterbury, a great procession was made to receive the pallium
at the gates of the city and carry it through the city into the
cathedral, where the Archbishop, the Metropolitan of Canterbury, was
vested in it in a lengthy and solemn rite.
Our appreciative thanks to Subdeacon Herman Blaydoe, St. Thomas Church,
MD, Carpatho-Russian Diocese, for help with manipulating images for
better Internet presentation here. Many years!
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