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38 Gyneceum; but there is no office in her honour, nor does her name appear in the martyrologies of the great authorities.

B. Agnes (29) or INEZ DE SENNA, Nov. 8. 1498. O.S.D. Nun. A pattern of goodness, and graced with miraculous powers. Manoel de Lima, Agiologio Dominico, iv. 339, on the authority of Bzovius.

B. Agnes (30) of the Pescara, Nov. 12. 1588. One of the Margaritole, i.e. nuns of the convent of ST. AGNES, at Foligno, popularly called the Margari- tura, from its superior, B. MARGARET OF FOLIGNO. La Pescara was a villa in the neighbourhood of Foligno. Agnes was an example of every virtue. The nuns and other persons who were present at her burial saw a great company of pil- grims come to venerate her, singing with angelic voices. The service ended, they disappeared. The Bollandists promise her story on her day. Jacobilli, Santi da Foligno.

B. Agnes (31) of Japan, Sept. 10. 1622. Wife of B. Cosmo Taquea, or Takeya; he was a Corean, brought, at the age of 11, prisoner to Japan, where he served a great man for a long time, and had a house and a piece of ground given him. He used all his property to help the missionaries, es- pecially the Fathers Angelo Orsucci and John of St. Dominic, whom he enter- tained on their arrival from Manilla, and to whom he taught the language and letters of the Japanese. He was burnt for the faith, Nov. 18, 1619, at Nagasaki. Agnes survived him three years, and was martyred at the age of 42, on the same day as Luoy FREITAS (q.v.). Cosmo and Agnes are among the 205 martyrs beatified with Lucy. Their son, Francis, aged 12, was put to death the next day.

St. or '''Ven. Agnes''' (32) of Langeac, Oct. 19. Called. 1602- 1634. O.S.D. Twice superior of her convent at Langeac, in France. Among other miraculous events recorded, it is said that she died and came to life again several times. The process of her canonization was begun in 1698, and Louis XIV. himself wrote to Clement XI. on the subject. The process was frequently interrupted and resumed, until 1808, when Pius VII. declared her heroic virtue proven. ''AA.SS. Boll. Præter. Les Mystiques.'' She is called in Guérin's Catalogue, Saint Agnes of Jesus, Her Life was written by De Lantages, who tells that she consecrated herself as a servant to the, and wore an iron chain in token of servitude.

'''Ven. Agnes''' (33), Tsau Kong, Feb. 28, c. 1860. First woman M. in China.

St. Agrata, or. One of the martyrs of Lyons, beheaded, being a Roman citizen, instead of being killed by the beasts of the amphitheatre. Tillemont. See.

St. Agrifa, or, May 13, M. at Alexandria. Boll., AA.SS.

St. Agrippina (1), June 23, V. M. at Rome, under Valerian (253-260). Called AGRAPHENA in the Russian calendar. Represented bound to the equuleus and scourged. Immediately after her martyr- dom her body was taken secretly by SS. (3), and, who went carefully from place to place until at last they got to Sicily, and there they buried her. Every one who treated her church or relics with disrespect was struck with disease or death, and every one who applies to her to be cleansed of leprosy obtains his prayer to this day. R.M. Boll., AA.SS., from a Greek Menea.

St. Agrippina (2), M. with.

Ahemeri. The Ahemeri are those saints that have no particular day: such CRESCENTIA, FABIOLA, RADIANA. are Baillet.

St. Aiala, May 8. 303. One of many martyrs commemorated with, and supposed to have been converted by the example and teaching of, St. Acacius or Agathius. See (2).

St. Ailbert, Aug. 10, 11, 12. c. 680. Of the royal blood of France. Daughter of Abobinus and Pientia, and sister of St. Ebresilius, or Ebregosilus, bishop of Meaux. Succeeded her cousin as second abbess of Jouarre, in