#St. Agnes Church

[icga-blog]

So. I saw a post about St. Agatha (really cool woman), and decide to look St. Agnes up, just to see any possible symbolism since Maggie is this type of author. Here is the story, I will let you came to your own conclusions. At the age of 13, St. Agnes was full of suitors (since she was beautiful and rich), but she did not want to get marry, she was consecrated by God that liked her virginity a lot. The thing here is: all of this was before Christianity become legal in Ancient Rome, so when she refused to marry the son of the Mayor of Rome, he told his father about her faith.

She was arrested and (after a trial that everyone says was forged in many ways) was condemned to, between many other things, work in the temple of Vesta, the roman goddess of home, ceremonial fire and fireplaces, the protector of life. This punishment would serve as excuse to her not marrying anyone and keeping her virginity, since all the priestesses of Vesta ensured their chastity and purity.

She still refused to let go of her faith, even if just in the eyes of society, and said to the Mayor: If I refused your son, who is a man, how can you think that I would accept paying honor to a statue? My husband is not from this earth. I'm young, it's true, but faith is not measured by years but by works. God measures the soul, not age. As for the gods, they may even be furious, I don't fear them. My God is love.

The Mayor decided to give her a worst punishment then. She was exposed naked in a brothel at the Agnolo circus, in Rome, for everyone to see.

But God came in her protection and cover her in a celestial light, so no one could see her (a man that was trying to grab her at the time become blind, but St. Agnes was kind and pray for him, so God give his vision back in a way that he no longer could see a naked girl when looking to her, but the daughter of God). Her hair then start growing really fast to protect her body from being seem, even when the light vanish. A second man tried to rape her, and died in the spot, but St. Agnes pity him and ask God to heal him, so he resurrected.

The Mayor got really scared at the hole ordeal and send her to the vice-mayor to take care of, since he was a much crueler man. He tried to burn her alive, but the flames didn't touch her. So he tortured her in every way imaginable, but she kept her calm all the time. Then he demanded that they cut her head.

St. Agnes died at 13, virgin, unmarried and holly in all aspects. She was later declared patron saint of chastity, children, gardeners, girls, grooms, rape victims and virgins.

[handsomegentlebutch]

My 3 little cousins were baptized today. "Triggered" is kind of a strong word but being in a catholic church again... I'm a little fragile rn ngl.

[helloparkerrose]

[natequarter]

it's a bit hard to identify name trends as such in the past, but the first half of the 1500s definitely had a thomas surge, right? there were so many fucking thomases

[historyfiles]

Churches of Cornwall: Higher Bal Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Trevaunce Road near St Ages was built in 1874 to replace an earlier building which had been destroyed by a great storm.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

A rare medieval example of the recognition and celebration of a loving partnership between two women can be seen in the Church of St Nicholas and St Mary at Etchingham in East Sussex.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[lkbh]

Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block.

[spilladabalia]

Stars of the Lid - Live @ St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn (9.22.2015)

[szimbolista]

"he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for"

Richard Siken: You Are Jeff

“Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block.”

Maggie Stiefwater: The Raven King

art @cofidea

[binbrick]

i think we're all too desensitized to "Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block." because i'm thinking about it again and maggie was actually insane to write that

[helloparkerrose]

[aglionbyacademia]

“Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block.”

need me a freak like Ronan actually

[letthesunshinein]

so we know that ronan helped adam move to st. agnes:

“adam, with probable help from ronan, moved from monmouth manufacturing to a room belonging to st. agnes church, a subtle distance that affected both boys in different ways”

but I feel so robbed of both the moving-in scene AND the sequence of events that had to happen for adam to even find out about st. agnes?? I’m envisioning the following:

ronan: throws a crumpled piece of paper at adam

ronan: hey shit head

adam: what the fuck???

ronan: runs into his room and slams the door

adam: opens the paper to find a listing for a room for rent at st. agnes

adam: what the fuck….

ronan, a few hours before: goes to the church to ask about the room, convinces/bribes them to rent it to adam, creates and prints (or dreams??) a semi-real looking listing, crumples it up so it doesn’t look new.

also…. “a subtle distance that affected both boys in different ways” like GIRL WHAT!!! the foreshadowing!!! these two have me in their clutches permanently

[historyfiles]

Churches of Cornwall: Trevellas Downs Wesleyan Methodist Chapel existed by 1879, starting as part of the St Agnes Wesleyan Circuit, but from 1932 it was known as Trevellas Downs Methodist Church.

[ahorsesea]

Adam "It doesn't matter how you say it. It's what you wanted, in the end. All your things in one place, all under your roof. Everything you own right where you can see...” Parrish falling in love with

Ronan "Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block" Lynch

[unorganisedbookshelf]

‘Adam, with probable help from Ronan, moved from Monmouth Manufacturing to a room belonging to St Agnes Church, a subtle distance that affected both boys in different ways.’ trb, 414