#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.

[searchsystem]

Werner Düttmann / St. Agnes / Church / 1966

[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.

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The woman portrayed as very small, Elizabeth Etchingham, died first, in 1452, nearly 30 years before her friend Agnes Oxenbridge, who died in 1480.

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

[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

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

[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

[saintpoems]

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!!!!!

[tommycoin]

i am going to go flying headfirst into another trc fixation if i keep hearing about it its EVERYWHERE now bc of the graphic novels

[cyrankaa]

Top ten most insane sentences ever written:

No.1 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

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Okie head cannon

The first time ronan stays the night at st Agnes w Adam was by accident. He was just spiraling and hadn’t slept in a couple days cause he’s so sure that he’d dream something horrible to life and physically can not let that happen cause what if something happens to Gansey?

So he just starts driving and ends up where he’d usually gone before on nights like this, st Agnes, completely forgetting who lives there now. Ronan heads into the church to rest on the pews and stew in his own pity and shame as usual.

But Adam had forced himself to stay up late to study and had heard a sound outside only to c the bmw parked outside, w no ronan. He goes down to figure out what’s going on only to c a shadowy ronan looking exhausted and miserable inside, lying on the hard wood bench. He can’t help but invite him up, mumbling that surely his floors would be more comfy (and less lonely) and ronan finally gets a good nights sleep for once

[whencyclopedia]

Prehistoric Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly are a small island group west of Cornwall. Despite their small size, they abound in prehistoric sites dating from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, including cairns, burial chambers and passage graves. While prehistoric sites are found on all islands, this image gallery focuses on the two larger islands St. Mary's and St. Agnes.

While the islands are remote today, they were once directly connected by a land bridge with Cornwall, a land called "Lyonesse" in traditional legends and folklore. About 18,000 years ago, at the height of the last glacial period, the sea level was about 100 metres (328 feet) below its current level, which meant that not only were all of the Scillonian islands connected, but they represented a hilly patch towards the western end of Lyonesse.

It is in these directly connected lands that people lived and built the prehistoric monuments that we can visit today. There are likely many more found below sea level. As the ice melted, sea levels rose slowly but noticeably in a human lifetime. About 10,000 years ago, sea levels were still 30 metres (98 feet) below current levels, and around 6,000 years ago they were about 5 metres (16 feet) lower than today.

Local legends say that on what is now the Seven Stones Reef (about 1/3 of the way to Cornwall) stood a great city, the City of Lions, with a turreted castle and no less than 140 churches. As the sea swallowed the city, only one man and his horse survived, and the Vyvyan family of Cornwall claims to be descended from this man.

The Isles of Scilly are a fantastic destination for lovers of prehistory, with stunning nature and friendly people to welcome travellers.

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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.