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Saint Cecilia in the Catholic Church the patron saint of music and of the blind. Her festival lessens in November 22. It was yearn supposed that she was the noble lady of Rome who, with her married man & more friends whom she experienced converted, suffered martydom, C. 230, under the emperor Alexander Severus. A researches of de Rossi, nonetheless (Rom. sott. two. 147), attend confirm a statement of Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she perished inside Sicily under Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180. a church inside her honor existed within Rome from either all about the 4th century, & was rebuilt by having tremendously splendour by Pope Paschal We. just about a season 820, and once againside by Cardinal Sfondrati in 1599. These are placed around the Trastevere touching the Ripa Grande quay, in which in earliest times the Ghetto was placed, & gives a title to a cardinal priest.

Cecilia, whose musical fame rests withwithin the passing notice in her legend that she praised God by instrumental too when vocal music, has elysian numbers of a masterpiece in art, including the Raphael at Bologna, the Rubens witharound Berlin, the Domenichino in Paris, & in literature, in which she is commemorated especially by Chaucer's Seconde Nonnes Tale, and by John Dryden's famous ode, placed to music by Handel in 1736, and late by Sir Hubert Parry (1889).

An additional St Cecilia, world health organization suffered inside Africa in the persecution of Diocletian, is commemorated on February 11.

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St. Cecilia, Patroness of Music
Relates the familiar legend of St. Cecilia, then debunks it.

Patron Saints Index: Cecilia
Illustrated profile.

The Second Nun's Tale of the Life of Saint Cecilia
From The Canterbury Tales. Modernized spelling. Chaucer based his story of St. Cecilia on Voragine's Golden Legend.

St Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr, Patroness of Church Music
From Butler's Lives of the Saints.

Saint Cecilia, Patron Saint of Church Music
Biography, St. Cecilia in art and literature, music in honor of St. Cecilia, links, bibliography. By Bethany F. Jenkins.

Saint Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr
From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Cecilia
Virgin and martyr, patron saint of church music.

The Ecole Glossary: Cecilia
Summary of the story of the saint, by Karen Rae Keck.

Cecilia of Rome
Illustrated life, with iconography and patronage.

Lives of the Saints: Cecilia
Essay on the life and legend of this saint, and its power to inspire in all ages. By Dave Kopel.