Just a thought: it struck me this morning, on this memorial of the early Christian martyr Agatha, that her official titles may be enriched by an additional category. For Agatha, I am adding the title “one of the seven women saints mentioned in the Roman Canon,” so as to deepen my appreciation of this third-century Sicilian martyr. Who says that the ancient inclusion of St. Agatha (together with six other women) in the Roman Canon — the heart of our eucharistic praying — isn’t as venerable as being counted among the “Doctors of the Church.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It struck me this morning, on this memorial of the early Christian martyr Agatha, that her official titles may be enriched by an additional category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91,362],"tags":[1084],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-year","category-saints-mary","tag-st-agatha"],"yoast_head":"\n