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Pupils remember St Agnes of Rome
5 March 2010
Members of the Lower Grammar year group at Stonyhurst College enjoy their
banquet celebrating the life of St Agnes, with their master, Greg Hunter
At Stonyhurst, the Jesuit public school in Lancashire, each year group, or "playroom" as it is called, has its own patron saint whose feast days are celebrated accordingly.
For Year 9 (or Lower Grammar - LG), St Agnes's day was marked by a Mass, a talk about the life and significance of St Agnes, Benediction and a feast in the top refectory. Greg Hunter, playroom master for LG, said: "It was great to gather everyone connected with the playroom together and to celebrate our patron saint and our community.
"The lives of the saints give us something to emulate and are fascinating to learn about. Everyone enjoyed the day. The photograph show staff and pupils enjoying the feast and Mass in the college chapel.
Agnes of Rome, as she is known, is a virgin-martyr whose feast is celebrated on January 21. She is one of seven women mentioned in the canon of the Mass. In Rome on her day two lambs are brought to the Pope for blessing from the Trappist abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome.
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