Thee I confess with my mouth and heart,
and with all inward affection Thee I desire,
One true God, who reignest with Thy Son
and with the Holy Ghost, ever One Almighty God.'
Then the fire became quenched, so that not one coal glowed there,
and the people attributed it to witchcraft,
roaring with loud clamour, and fierce against [her] life.
Then Aspasius could not withstand the great tumult,
but bade kill her with death-bearing sword,
and Christ then received her, martyred for His Name.
Her father and her mother, with great joy,
took her body, and brought it to their own house,
and buried her there without sorrowing,
and there often watched, venerating the place.
Then on a certain night they saw come
a great company of virgins, and Agnes in the midst;
they were all clothed with golden garments,
and advanced gloriously with exceeding light.
Then said the holy Agnes to her parents thus,
'Beware that ye weep not for me as if dead,
but rejoice with me, I am a companion of these virgins,
and I have received with them very fair habitations,
and I am associated to Him in Heaven, whom I loved here on earth.'
After these words she departed with the virgins.
Then was this vision widely spread abroad.
Then it befell, after a little time,
in the Emperor's days, who was called Constantine,
that some men told the vision to his daughter,
called Constantia, who as yet was a heathen;
she was, notwithstanding, wise; and [was] very ill,
having fearful wounds in all her limbs.
Then she thought that she would watch one night
at Agnes' tomb, to pray for her healing.
Then came she thither, though she was a heathen,
and with believing mind cried to the virgin
