Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Agnes Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Agnes for purity, young women, and courage in persecution. Traditionally prayed January 12 through January 21, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena remembers St. Agnes as a young virgin martyr whose purity and fearless faith overcame threats, shame, and violence through steadfast trust in Christ.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for purity, young women, courage in persecution, and holy faith.
Usual timing
January 12 through January 21, or any time
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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O glorious St. Agnes, by the living faith which animated thee from thy tender years and rendered thee so pleasing to God that thou did merit a martyr's crown: obtain for us the grace to keep our holy faith pure within us and to profess ourselves Christians in both word and work.
May our open confession of Jesus before men cause Him to bear a favorable witness to us before His eternal Father.
O invincible Martyr, St. Agnes, by thy confidence in God's help, when being condemned by the Roman prefect to see the lily of thy purity stained and trampled in the mud, thou did not despair, still trusting firmly in God.
We beseech thee by thine intercession to obtain for us from Almighty God the forgiveness of our sins and sure confidence that He will bestow upon us life everlasting and the means necessary to merit it.
O courageous maiden, St. Agnes most pure, by the burning love with which thy heart was on fire, and which preserved thee from harm in the midst of the flames of passion and of the stake with which the enemies of Christ sought to destroy thee.
Obtain for us from Almighty God that every unclean flame may be extinguished in us and only the fire of Divine Love may burn within us.
So that after spending a blameless life in practice of this virtue we may be worthy to have a share in the glory thou did merit by the purity of thy heart and thy glorious martyrdom.
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St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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About this novena
Description
This novena remembers St. Agnes as a young virgin martyr whose purity and fearless faith overcame threats, shame, and violence through steadfast trust in Christ.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
purity, young women, courage in persecution, holy faith
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for purity, young women, courage in persecution, and holy faith.
Usual timing
January 12 through January 21, or any time
Saint Agnes, Alonso Cano, c. 1624-1638