Saint Agnes is venerated as a martyr, consecrated virgin and saint; celebrated on 21 January according to the Roman Martyrology as a martyr of purity.
Agnes of Rome or Saint Agnes, martyr of purity.
Category: Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical dresses and antiques. Medieval, Byzantine.
The Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral is still considered “one of the most important and enigmatic monuments in the history of art”.
Hilendar on Mount Athos, the “Holy Mountain.”
The mountain of Athos is well known throughout the entire Orthodox world as the centre of a great monastic republic.
The Jains. Benares, the sacred city in India.
Jainism is the only one of the early Indian monastic orders which has handed down almost intact its tenets and organisation to the present day.
Iona, the Sacred Isle. The Isle of the Druids.
The ancient Gaelic name of Iona was unis nan Druineach, the Isle of the Druids. The Westminster Abbey of Scotland.
Chalice and paten of Saint Gozlin, Bishop of Toul, 10th century.
Treasury of the Cathedral at Nancy. This chalice and paten are of gold, enriched with precious stones and small cloisonné enamels
The market cross at Glastonbury, Somerset.
Antiquities of Great-Britain. The market cross at Glastonbury, Somerset by Thomas Hearne
Glastonbury Abbey in the county of Somerset, England.
The memories of the British Inyswytryn, the Saxon Glaestingburge, the modern Glastonbury, or as it was sometimes called the isle of Avalon
The Laura of Mar Saba near the Dead Sea.
Nine and a half miles, on horseback, from Jerusalem in the unique grandeur of its situation (the Wilderness of Engedi, near the Dead Sea), the Laura of Mar Saba…
Early monastic life and the controversy over icons.
Two groups of poets, living in the seclusion of two monasteries were particularly involved in the dispute when at its height.