Agnes of Rome

Holy Virgin Martyr Agnes of Rome.

St. Agnes was a young girl of Rome who, refusing marriage for love of Christ, was denounced as a Christian in the persecution of the early fourth century. Tradition relates that she was sent to a brothel and preserved unharmed by God before being put to death by the sword at the age of about thirteen.

She is commemorated on January 21.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Agnes of Rome is commemorated on January 21. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on February 3 of the civil calendar.

Who celebrates a name day

People with these names keep their name day on this feast:

Agnes, Agni, Agne, Agnessa, Agnese

Also commemorated on January 21

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  Maximos the Confessor

  Hierarch, Μάξιμος

  Theologian and confessor who defended Orthodoxy.

  Name days: Maximos, Makis, Max, Maksim, Maxim, Maximus

• Neophytos the Martyr

  Martyr, Νεόφυτος

  Holy Martyr Neophytos of Nicaea, a youth martyred at fifteen.

  Name days: Neophytos, Neofytos, Neophyte, Neofitos

• Maximos the Greek

  Venerable, Μάξιμος ο Γραικός

  Venerable Maximos the Greek, Athonite scholar and confessor in Russia.

• Eugenios of Trebizond and those with him

  Martyr, Ευγένιος Τραπεζούντος

  Holy Martyrs Eugenios, Candidus, Valerian and Aquila of Trebizond.

  Name days: Eugenios, Evgenios, Eugene

• Patroklos the Martyr

  Martyr, Πάτροκλος

  Holy Martyr Patroklos of Troyes.

  Name days: Patroklos, Patroclus

• Zosimas of Syracuse

  Hierarch, Ζώσιμος Συρακουσών

  St. Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse.