Saint Agnes, icon of purity
The young Agnes is one of the most popular saints of the Church, which celebrates her on January 21. She is an icon, a sign of purity and patron saint. of adolescent girls and young women. At the age of 13, she rejected suitors for her love of Christ. The son of the prefect of Rome, scorned, denounced her for her Christian religion. On the pyre, the flames did not even brush her, and she died by the sword.