Agnes of Montepulciano

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name=Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
birth_date=c. 1268
death_date=c. 1317
feast_day=20 April
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=Montepulciano in Tuscany
death_place=Montepulciano in Tuscany
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Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (in Italian: Agnese Segni di Montepulciano) (1268 – 1317) was born into a noble family in Gracciano, a small village near Montepulciano in Tuscany, Italy where, at the age of nine she entered the monastery.

Some four years later the administration of the castle of Proceno, a fief of Orvieto, invited the nuns of Montepulciano to send some of their sisters to Proceno to found a new monastery. In 1288 Agnes, despite her youth, was selected as prioress. There she gained a reputation for performing miracles: people suffering from mental and physical ailments seemed cured by her mere presence and she was reported to have multiplied loaves—recalling the miracle of the loaves and fishes—on a number of occasions.

Later, probably in 1306, she established a convent of Dominican nuns in Gracciano over which she presided until her death.

It is said that after her death her body remained incorrupt, rather than decomposing, and that a perfumed liquid flowed from her hands and feet. Raimondo da Capua, confessor to Saint Catherine of Siena, wrote an account of Agnese some fifty years later; Catherine referred to her as "Our mother, the glorious Agnes."

She was canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726. Her feast day is April 20.

ee also

*The Incorruptibles

References

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*Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. "The Penguin Dictionary of Saints". 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
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* [http://www.chiostrosantagostino.it/archiviorecanatesi/santiebeati.html Santi e beati venerati in Sant’Agostino di Recanati] it