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Hey there, Sprowds. Today is January 21st, 2019. It is also the Feast Day of St. Agnes.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are going to keep talking about the important theological virtues.

Last week, we talked about faith. This week we are talking about hope.

Now, to introduce us to the topic of hope, let's talk about today's Saint, St. Agnes.

So St. Agnes lived a long time ago. She was an early Christian in the city of Rome. Now, if you remember, the early Christians

did not have a very easy time. At the time, Romans and the emperor of Rome worshipped pagan gods,

and they were not very tolerant to people that did other things. They particularly hated

the Christians. St. Agnes,

however, was very devoted to Jesus Christ, and she had decided that she would remain pure, body,

soul, everything, and give all that she had just to Jesus Christ. Therefore, she decided that she would

not get married. However, she was the

daughter of a rich nobleman in Rome. And when people started to come around wishing to marry her,

and she refused them all, well, they got pretty mad. And people started to turn her into the Roman

government as a Christian. The punishment for being

a Christian was death and oftentimes very brutal, horrible death. But before that, the people in

Rome that were not Christian decided that they would try to simply break Agnes' vow to not get married.

They attempted to strip her of her clothes and pull her through the streets of Rome.

But legend has it when they did this, God miraculously made her hair grow and cover her entire body as if she was dressed. They also tried to set her on fire,

to burn her at the stake as other saints have been killed, but wouldn't you know it, they

couldn't get the wood to light on fire. So twice, because of St. Agnes's amazing faith

and her amazing dedication to give all that she had to God alone, God

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