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Holy Martyrs

Faith of Agen

A virgin of Agen, burned for Christ around 303.

Feast
October 6old style October 19
Reposed
3033rd century
Place
Agen
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Faith of Agen (Foi) was a virgin of Agen in the south of France, burned to death for Christ in the time of the Emperor Maximian Herculius, in the third century, around 303. Her shrine at Conques is very famous. She is commemorated on 6 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of her life.

Commemorated the same day October 6