{"id":1064,"date":"2016-04-20T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:56:47","slug":"st-agnes-of-montepulciano-feast-day-april-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/st-agnes-of-montepulciano-feast-day-april-20th","title":{"rendered":"St. Agnes of Montepulciano (Feast Day \u2013 April 20th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">St. Agnes was born on January 28, 1268 in Gracciano, a small village near Montepulciano. Since her childhood, she felt a fascination for spiritual things.\u00a0At the age of nine, she convinced her parents to allow her to enter a Franciscanmonastery\u00a0of women in the city known as the &#8220;Sisters of the Sack&#8221;, after the rough\u00a0religious habit\u00a0they wore. They lived a simple,\u00a0contemplative\u00a0life. She received the permission of the Pope to be accepted into this life at such a young age, normally against\u00a0Church law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1288 Agnes, despite her youth at only 20 years of age, was noted for her devotion to the\u00a0Blessed Sacrament\u00a0and deep life of prayer, and was elected as the\u00a0abbess\u00a0of the community. There she gained a reputation for performing miracles: people suffering from mental and physical ailments seemed cured by her presence. She was reported to have &#8220;multiplied loaves&#8221;, creating many from a few on numerous occasions, recalling the Gospel\u00a0miracle of the loaves and fishes. She herself, however, suffered severe bouts of illness which lasted long periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>In 1306 Agnes was recalled to head the monastery in Montepulciano. Agnes reached a high degree of contemplative prayer and is said to have been favored with many visions. After her return, she proceeded to build a church, Santa Maria Novella, to honor the\u00a0Blessed Mother, as she felt she had been commanded to do in a\u00a0mystical vision\u00a0several years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Agnes died in 1314, at the age of forty-nine. When her body was moved years after her death to the monastery church, it was found to be incorrupt.\u00a0Her tomb became the site of pilgrimages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Agnes was born on January 28, 1268 in Gracciano, a small village near Montepulciano. 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