Generalities.
Discovery of Interesting Relics.
Some excavations carried out in the catacombs, at the expense of Cardinal Koop, Bishop of Breslau, and especially under the high altar and choir of the Church of St. Agnes without the Walls, from which liis Eminence takes his title, have resulted in the discovery of the body of St. Agnus, cne of the most interesting figures in the Primitive Christians of Rome. According to tradition she was a young girl who suffered martyrdom rather than sacrifice to the gods or accept a husband in one of the persecutions of the fourth century—probably that of Diocletian. About the year 1600 the casket containing her body was found on a marble stone in a subterranean vault under the church, and was re-enclosed by Pope Paul V. in a silver case. This case with its contents, after being missing for four centuries, has again been brought to light. Readers familiar with the writings of the late Cardinal Wiseman will remember that Agnes is one of the leading personages in his story, entitled “ Fabiola. ” which illustrates the early Roman Christians
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1198, 24 February 1902, Page 3
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182Generalities. Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1198, 24 February 1902, Page 3
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