St. Agnes Virgin and Martyr (about 305) was; according to the Latin tradition; a girl of 12/13 years old; who was martyred in Rome during the persecutions of Diocletian January 21; the day when the Church celebrates his memory. The Santa holds the palm of martyrdom and the lamb in her lap; was in fact slaughtered like a lamb after the flames of the fire that had died away it is burned for his prayers. For his staunch defense of the purity and virginity is proclaimed patroness of the girls. Little image chromolithographic French; 1899