The Almo Collegio Capranica is the oldest Roman college, founded in 1457 by Cardinal Domenico Capranica (1400–1458) in his own palace for thirty young clerics, who received an education suitable to prepare them for the priesthood.
Madonna with child and saints by Antoniazzo Romano, Chapel, Almo Collegio Capranica
Image: Colonna palazzo Capranica 1150504
Agnes of Rome is a virgin martyr, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Anglican Communion and Lutheran Churches. She is one of several virgin martyrs commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass, and one of many Christians martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
Saint Agnes by Domenichino (c. 1620)
Agnes depicted on the medieval Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum
Santa Inés, Guarino, 1650
The relic of the skull of Saint Agnes in Sant'Agnese in Agone, Rome