ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 21st of January WELCOME! SAINT AGNES, VIRGIN AND MARTYR St Agnes was a teenager who was put to death at the end of the persecution of Diocletian, whose bloody edicts appeared in March in the year of our Lord 303. She was accused to the governor as a Christian. The judge at first employed the mildest expressions and most inviting promises; to which Agnes paid no regard, repeating always, that she belonged to Jesus Christ. He then made use of threats; but found her soul endowed with a masculine courage. She was then dragged before the idols, and commanded to offer incense: "but could by no means be compelled to move her hand, except to make the sign of the cross," says St Ambrose. ...EXCEPT TO MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS The governor seeing his measures ineffectual, said he would send her to a house of prostitution, where what she prized so highly should be exposed to the insults of the debauch...