Familia Catolica introduced me to Liturgical Folders. They are a perfect way to display and store the information we want to focus on for a saint.. Much simpler than a lapbook, but it can be as simple as a coloring sheet with a prayer or filled with as many details as we feel up to including.
The St. Agnes coloring page can be found here in her sidebar.
This is the first time we have celebrated the Feast of St Agnes. We learned a lot during our internet search for information about her and how this day is celebrated.
My children wanted to know why she was pictured with a lamb, and why were there so many crafts and foods on blogs?
We found out that Agnes in Latin means "lamb" and "pure or chaste" in Greek.
There is a tradition of blessing lambs on her feast day. That wool is used to make palliums that every year on June 29, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the Pope places a pallium around the neck of each new Archbishop.
Simple marshmallow Lamb Cupcakes
Prayer to St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
O Little St. Agnes, so young and yet made so strong and wise by the power of God, protect by your prayers all the young people of every place whose goodness and purity are threatened by the evils and impurities of this world.
Give them strength in temptation and a true repentance when they fail.
Help them to find true Christian friends to accompany them in following the Lamb of God and finding safe pastures in His Church and in her holy sacraments.
May you lead us to the wedding banquet of heaven to rejoice with you and all the holy virgin martyrs in Christ who lives and reigns forever and ever.
Amen.