Agnese Sanctis

Agnese Sanctis (アニェーゼ＝サンクティス) is a Roman Catholic Church nun who leads a military force called Agnese Forces. She was tasked to eliminate Orsola Aquinas and later joins Necessarius after incidents related to the La Regina del Mare Adriatico spell.

Appearance
Agnese has red hair tied with multiple braids, which from a distance bear an uncanny resemblence to dreadlocks. She also wears a scapular- usually worn by Roman Catholic nuns, but detaches its lower portion, revealing her slender legs.

She wears platformed shoes called chopine which are 30cm thick. She usually wears them over her usual form of footwear and during combat they can be removed to enable better movement.

Personality
At first glance, Agnese seems like a clumsy, quiet girl but when it comes to work, she displays a clear change of personality becoming a domineering person who doesn't mind making sacrifices for the the sake of her goals. She seems to be somewhat of a sadist, revelling in other's pain during combat as demonstrated on a Knight when she uses her Lotus Wand to strike his groin, causing him great pain, and still planning to go even further until she was stopped by Lucia and Angelene. Like a number of other girls, she's apparently fallen in love with Touma; though it is debatable whether she was serious or not when she said she loved him due to her being grateful to him for creating a diversion (unknowingly) for her to rescue the other nuns captured by the knights.

Background
Agnese lived in Milan, Italy during her childhood, her parents were killed for reasons unknown during a very young age, and became a street urchin living on whatever scraps of food she could find. She was later taken in by the Roman Catholic Church along with a number of other girls, where she eventually meets with Lucia and Angelene and became close friends with them. This leads to to her forming her own fighting force and commanding over 250 battle-hardened nuns who were proficient in both magic and combat in general.

Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc

 * Main article:Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc

She is assigned by the Roman Catholic Church to work with Stiyl Magnus to resolve the case regarding the Amakusa Catholics and Orsola Aquinas. Unbeknownst to Stiyl, Agnese's forces are there to terminate Orsola Aquinas if they have retrieved her from the Amakusa.

After deceiving the representatives of the Anglican Church (Stiyl and Index) and Touma into defeating the Amakusa, Agnese takes Orsola to the church that was constructed on Orsola's behalf. There, she physically abuses Orsola for being problematic.

Touma later defeats her singlehandedly with the help of Stiyl, Index, and the Amakusa Catholics (who agreed to assist them).

La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc

 * Main article:La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc

In Volume 11, she returned as a Roman Catholic Church captive/sacrifice for the spell "Queen of Adriatic Sea" that the church planned to modify and use on Academy City, but was saved by Touma and company. She's now under Necessarius, and is now living together with Kaori, Orsola, Sherry, etc. in a girl's dormitory owned by Necessarius.

Abilities
She wields a Lotus Wand (蓮の杖 (ロータスワンド)), a source of her power. It's a staff with a small six-winged angel piece on the end. The staff takes the place of ceremonial maces the clergy used back in medieval times when they needed to defend themselves. This staff works on the Idol Theory and the theory of the Western idea of "Five Elements," being Water, Earth, Fire, Air and Ether. Being aligned with the element "Ether," this staff can also use the other four elements supposedly, though Agnese hasn't shown spells from the other elements using this staff.

The activation command for the ability of the Lotus Wand is: "As above, so below, the fifth of the five elements, open the crosier that symbolizes peace and order, the first icon under the law of God's Child and the Cross, link foreign objects and people!"

Her power allows her to inflict pain onto her opponents through a similar method to that of voodoo dolls. This is doen by striking the ground with the wand, inflicting a powerful force of air at intended target. She also demonstrated the ability to use it to cut her target by scratching the wand with a clipper. It's described by Touma as a spatial attack that bypasses physical armour.