The Church of Sant Agnese in Agone
Description:
The church in Piazza Navona is dedicated to the Martyr Agnes, one of Rome’s most revered saints.
There is a legend according to which the Christian Agnes was exposed naked in front of a crowd of pagans in the stadium of Domitian, but she instantly branched her hair and concealed her nakedness.
The head of the saint, stabbed with a dagger, is kept in the crypt of the church.