Because of the nature of her martyrdom, the Church honors St. Agnes as the patron saint of girls, chastity, virgins, and victims of rape. A lamb is wreathed in flowers during a special Mass for the ...
ST. AGNES PARISH. St. Agnes Parish, established in 1893 to serve Catholics in the Hough neighborhood, saw a demographic shift by the 1950s, becoming a predominantly AFRICAN AMERICAN parish. The parish ...