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title: SANT'AGNESE MARTYR

subject date: 2016-12-13

caption: SANT'AGNESE (290/293 - 305), Virgin and Martyr was, according to the Latin tradition, a noble maiden of Gens Clodia martyred in Rome at the age of about 12 years, during the persecutions of Diocletian. Having rejected the proposals of the son of the Prefect of Rome invoking pronounced vows of chastity, was destined to the cloister of the vestal virgins, then to a brothel; condemned to the pyre miraculously escaped the flames, and eventually died slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb. Commemorating the day of death (Dies Natalis, birth into heaven), 21 January. colored etching, 1886

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country: Italia

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Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 71321

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: IV

subject epoch: Paleocristiano

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 39713

file name: FSNgilardi_71321.jpg

keywords

protectorprotectionangelvow of chastitypureVirgincleanlinessvirginityChristianityreligioncult of saintsmartyrAgnesundermine