Just a little reminder that tomorrow is St. Agnes Day.
On January 21, at the Basilica of St. Agnes in Rome, two lambs are presented at the sanctuary rail as the choir sings “on her right hand a lamb whiter than snow” (stans a dextris ejus agnus nive candidior).
When your name sounds like one of Christ’s titles in Latin, your feast day becomes special.
In the springtime, the lambs will be shorn. The wool will make the pallia of the new Archbishops.
The pallia sit on the tomb of St. Peter from June 28 to June 29, then make their way to the cities of the world.
…P.S. Big Hoyas game against Pitt tonight.
I will miss the whole thing, because I have class. (Argh!)
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