Saint Agnes of Montepulciano

St. Agnes of Montepulciano was born in 1268 into the noble Segni family in Gracciano, Italy. She had a profound spiritual life from a very young age. At the age of nine, Agnes requested her parents to allow her to enter the Dominican monastery at nearby Montepulciano. Her parents initially opposed Agnes' desire, so she prayed that God might change their opinions and was eventually given permission to become a Nun. Four years later, she was commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV to assist in the foundation of a new convent in Procena. At the age of fifteen, she was made superior of the new convent in Proceno. She lived on bread and water for fifteen years and slept on the floor of her cell with a stone for a pillow. 

St. Agnes possessed numerous mystical gifts, whereby she was favored with visions of Our Blessed Mother, the Christ-child, and the angels, and cross-shaped particles like manna were known to fall on her and wherever she prayed. Her outstanding virtue was her complete faith and trust in God, and to this was attributed her great power of intercession and her fame as a worker of miracles. As Christ did in the gospels, she frequently multiplied loaves to feed those in need. Invalids and those afflicted with different types of mental illness would be restored to health just by being brought into her presence.

Some years later, the townsfolk of her native Montepulciano, desirous of her return, offered to build her a convent in a place once occupied by a house of ill repute. Thus, in 1298, she founded the renowned convent there and, placing it under Dominican patronage, governed it for 19 years until her death. St. Agnes died on April 20th, 1317, at the age of only 43. Her body was found incorrupt when it was moved to a church years after her death. 

St. Agnes of Montepulciano, intercede for us, that we may be more aware of the goodness of God and have absolute trust in His providence for our future.

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Pelayan Atasan Tertinggi / Most High Servant,
Yesus, Maria, Yusuf Pelayanan Kasih / Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love 
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)

My vocation is Blessed and Saints.

"I am the most humble of all the Saints in Heaven" Mary, Mother of God."

"I am the handmaid of the Lord, said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me."

Mother Mary is the most humble Saint in Heaven and she is also the Mother of God for us all
(Luke 1:38)