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Visitation Altarpiece: Detail, St. Agnes

The saint reads from a book while holding the sword with which she was martyred. The sword is not uncommon as an attribute of St. Agnes, and the lamb is nearly universal; but the crown she wears here is quite unusual.

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Photographed at the Church of the Visitation, Meersburg, by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.