http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2007/01/21/agnes-day/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2007/01/21/agnes-day/comment-page-1/#comment-31404 thomps Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:28:57 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2007/01/21/agnes-day/#comment-31404 If people are interested in St Agnes and her St Agnes Outside the Walls, they should check out Margaret Visser's book Geometry of Love: Space, Time and Meaning in an Ordinary Church. It's all about St. Agnes and her church as well as the adjoining Sta. Constanza. It's really informative and one of the best books I read all last year. However I wouldn't call her church "ordinary." Because of that book I made sure I got to the church when I was in Rome last May and along with Santa Sabina's on the Aventine it was one of my favorite churches. I toured the catacombs underneath the church as well, not much decorative early Christian artwork but still very interesting. My only complaint about the book was that it lacked illustrations, but I picked up a booklet in the church's gift shop for a few euros that had some beautiful photos. A few months back the English language version of 105 Live did an interview with Visser about St Agnes and her church. I didn't have an ipod then so I couldn't download it, but it had some wonderful info in it that I would have loved to have shared with many people that I told about my trip. If people are interested in St Agnes and her St Agnes Outside the Walls, they should check out Margaret Visser’s book Geometry of Love: Space, Time and Meaning in an Ordinary Church. It’s all about St. Agnes and her church as well as the adjoining Sta. Constanza. It’s really informative and one of the best books I read all last year. However I wouldn’t call her church “ordinary.” Because of that book I made sure I got to the church when I was in Rome last May and along with Santa Sabina’s on the Aventine it was one of my favorite churches. I toured the catacombs underneath the church as well, not much decorative early Christian artwork but still very interesting. My only complaint about the book was that it lacked illustrations, but I picked up a booklet in the church’s gift shop for a few euros that had some beautiful photos. A few months back the English language version of 105 Live did an interview with Visser about St Agnes and her church. I didn’t have an ipod then so I couldn’t download it, but it had some wonderful info in it that I would have loved to have shared with many people that I told about my trip.

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