Abstract
St. Agnes of Bohemia i sone of the founding members of the Franciscan movement in Central Europe.
In this study is presented a hypothetic reconstruction of the beginnings of Agnes' hagiography. It was probably the Provincial Minister of the Czech Franciscans, Nicholas Moravus, who prepared the canonization request right after Agnes' funeral which is documented in the three Šibenik concepts (St Francis Monastery, Šibenik/Croatia, M 36, ff. 22v-23v).
Nicholas Moravus probably wrote also the first biography of St. Agnes.
Its contens roughly corresponded to the first 12 chapters of the legend Candor lucis eterne (BHL 154b-c). The next attempt was not made until 40 years later by Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.
It was probably due to her motivation that the Prague Franciscans made a revision of Candor lucis eterne, sometime between the years 1322-1328. Following the order of the Provincial, a prologue, a final note and a comprehensive thirteenth chapter containing a long list of new miracles, were added to the legend.