has been known since the 16th century. Notable churches Basilica of St James and St Agnes, Nysa, Poland St Agnes Cathedral, Rockville Centre, New York St Agnes Church, New York City Sant'Agnese in Agone, Rome Sant'Agnese fuori le mura, Rome , Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada St Agnes, St Agnes, Cornwall, England St Agnes, Cologne, Germany St Agnes, Cawston, Norfolk, England St Agnes' Church, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, England St Agnes Cathedral, Springfield, Missouri, US St Agnes Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota Legacy The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes is a Roman Catholic religious community for women based in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, US. It was founded in 1858, by Father Caspar Rehrl, an Austrian missionary, who established the sisterhood of pioneer women under the patronage of Agnes, to whom he had a particular devotion. The city of Santa Ynez, California is named after her. Cultural references Hrotsvitha, the tenth-century nun and poet, wrote a heroic poem about Agnes. In the historical novel Fabiola or, the Church of the Catacombs, written by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman in 1854, Agnes is the soft-spoken teenage cousin and confidant of the protagonist, the beautiful noblewoman Fabiola. The Eve of St. Agnes is a Romantic narrative poem written by John Keats in 1819. The instrumental song "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train" appears on the 1991 album The Soul Cages by Sting. The song "Bear’s Vision of St. Agnes" appears on the 2012 album Ten Stories by rock band mewithoutYou. The St. Agnes Library is a branch of the New York Public Library located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between West 81st and West 82nd Streets. Gallery See also List of Catholic saints Saint Agnes of Rome, patron saint archive References Further reading Of Saint Agnes in "Ælfric's Lives of Saints", by Ælfric of Eynsham London, Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co. (1881). External links "St Agnes – St Peter's Square Colonnade Saints" Satucket.com, St. Agnes of Rome "Saint Agnes" at the Christian Iconography website "Of Saint Agnes" from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend Remarks on the feast of St. Agnes from St. Ambrose of Milan, On Virgins Saint Agnes – The patron saint of young girls. Christian child saints 291 births 304 deaths 4th-century Christian martyrs 3rd-century Roman women 4th-century Roman women 3rd-century Christian saints 4th-century Christian saints People executed by the