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[Catholic Caucus] Day by Day -- Saints for All, Saint Agnes of Assisi, 11-19-18
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Posted on 11/19/2018 5:37:41 PM PST by Salvation

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Saint Agnes of Assisi

Saint of the Day for November 19

(c. 1197 – November 16, 1253)

 

Saint Agnes of Assisi’s Story

Born Caterina Offreducia, Agnes was the younger sister of Saint Clare, and her first follower. When Caterina left home two weeks after Clare’s departure, their family attempted to bring her back by force. They tried to drag her out of the monastery, but her body suddenly became so heavy that several knights could not budge it. Her uncle Monaldo tried to strike her but was temporarily paralyzed. The knights then left Caterina and Clare in peace. Saint Francis himself gave Clare’s sister the name Agnes, because she was gentle like a young lamb.

Agnes matched her sister in devotion to prayer and in willingness to endure the strict penances that characterized the Poor Ladies’ lives at San Damiano. In 1221, a group of Benedictine nuns in Monticelli near Florence asked to become Poor Ladies. Saint Clare sent Agnes to become abbess of that monastery. Agnes soon wrote a rather sad letter about how much she missed Clare and the other nuns at San Damiano. After establishing other monasteries of Poor Ladies in northern Italy, Agnes was recalled to San Damiano in 1253, as Clare lay dying.

Three months later Agnes followed Clare in death, and was canonized in 1753.


Reflection

God must love irony; the world is so full of it. In 1212, many in Assisi surely felt that Clare and Agnes were wasting their lives and were turning their backs on the world. In reality, their lives were tremendously life-giving, and the world has been enriched by the example of these poor contemplatives.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic; saints
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1 posted on 11/19/2018 5:37:41 PM PST by Salvation
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To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; marshmallow; ...

Saint of the Day Ping!


2 posted on 11/19/2018 5:40:27 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Francis met Clare and Agnes while he was begging door to door. Before he had an order. He lived alone in poverty


3 posted on 11/19/2018 7:55:55 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: Salvation

Thank you.

St. Agnes, pray for me that I will put the ways of the Lord before the ways of the world.


4 posted on 11/20/2018 4:46:16 AM PST by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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