64. [63.] Agnes.* Agnes lives in a chamber with maidens as her companions, and whenever she is summoned forth by some worshiper, she goes out and asks what they want with a shepherd girl who in herself is a lowly person and engaged with others in her work. At that point her companions come out, too, and she scolds her summoners until they are ashamed. And in order that they may be ashamed and desist from such endeavors, she is guarded to keep pride from entering into her. Now, however, she has been taken elsewhere, nor is she found any longer to the right among upright women, in whose company she is not tolerated unless she replies that she is vile. * St. Agnes, 292?-304?, Child martyr of Rome and venerated since the 4th century.