{"product_id":"book-f5ng","title":"Saint Agnes of Montepulciano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaint Agnes of Montepulciano\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaint of Saints\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring one of Catherine of Siena's ecstasies, she exclaimed, referring to St. Agnes of Montepulciano: \u003cem\u003e\"I give you thanks oh my Lord, for showing me the place that will be mine (in Paradise), next to my sister Agnes.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is this Saint (virtually unknown in our country) that a powerful Saint and Doctor of the Church - Catherine of Siena should say this of her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're about Holy Clusters again. God is bringing us to Tuscany, once more, ancient Tuscany filled with a history of the greatest Saints and most deplorable sinners. Agnes, one of the great Saints was born in 1268, in a hamlet three miles from Montepulciano, named Gracciano, in the \"Villa di Gracciano Vecchio.\" A Dominican like Catherine, Agnes would die April 20, 1317, thirty years before Catherine of Siena was born. Again, the Church is in crisis; again God sends us powerful men and women Saints!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgnes was born into the nobility. At age nine, she would ask permission from her parents to enter a monastery of Nuns living a very austere life, in Montepulciano. They were called \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Suore del Sacco,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacchine or Sisters of the Sackcloth, because of the coarse material of which their habits were made.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49430407217456,"sku":"BDf5ng","price":0.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/f5ng-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773364252","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-f5ng","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}