✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: April 20

St. Agnes of Montepulciano

Virgin, Abbess · 1268–1317

Patron of —

An Italian girl made prioress of a convent while still in her teens, a Dominican mystic whose holiness drew pilgrims and who was later honored by St. Catherine of Siena.

She was running a convent before she was out of her teens, dispensed from age by the pope himself, and became one of Tuscany's most loved holy women.

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