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Models of Purity: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Devotion to St. Agnes, by R. Jared Staudt – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Models of Purity: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Devotion to St. Agnes, by R. Jared Staudt

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By R. Jared Staudt, Catholic Exchange, January 21, 2025

R. Jared Staudt, PhD serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90. He is author of How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization (TAN, 2023) and The Beer Option: Brewing a Catholic Culture Yesterday & Today (Angelico, 2018), as well as editor of Renewing Catholic Schools (Catholic Education Press, 2020).

Author’s Note: The Dominican Order sponsors the Angelic Warfare Confraternity for those who want to wear a belt of chastity and dedicate themselves to purity in imitation of St. Thomas Aquinas. Please visit their website if you enjoyed these prayers or are otherwise interested in the confraternity.

St. Thomas Aquinas’s feast day (January 28th) is the octave day of the feast of St. Agnes (January 21st). While this may seem inconsequential, there are many points of connection between these two great saints.

First, they are both from central Italy: St. Agnes from Rome and St. Thomas from just south, Aquino, between Rome and Naples. Second, they both were from influential aristocratic families, Agnes from a noble Roman family and Aquinas from a mixed Germanic and Italian family related to the Holy Roman Emperor. Third, they are both known for their exceptional purity, both having gone through terrible ordeals to test their purity in their teenage years. Finally, and most importantly, St. Thomas had an ardent devotion to St. Agnes, even keeping her relics with him at all times.

According to J.P. Torrell’s biography of St. Thomas, the saint healed his assistant, Reginald, through the intercession of St. Agnes: ….

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