Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Nerses, bishop and martyr
- Barlaam, martyr
- Mecthilde of Magdeburg, abbess
- Hilda of Whitby
- Agnes of Assisi, abbess
St. Agnes of Assisi (d. ca. 1253 A.D.) was the younger sister of St. Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the Poor Clares and the close associate of St. Francis of Assisi. She was only fifteen when she followed St. Clare into the convent. In 1220 A.D. St. Francis sent her to Monticelli to become abbess of a new convent of Poor Clares. Agnes died two months after the death of Clare. Initially buried at San Damiano, her remains were laid alongside her sister in 1260 A.D. in the newly built church of Santa Chiara in Assisi.
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