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Oct 11, 2024 · St. Cecilia (flourished 3rd century, Rome [Italy]; feast day November 22) was one of the most famous virgin martyrs of the early church and historically one of the most discussed. She is a patron saint of music and of musicians. According to a late 5th-century legend, she was a noble Roman who, as a child, had vowed her virginity to God.
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Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. [2] She became the patroness of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia "sang in her ...
Nov 22, 2023 · St Cecilia is the patron saint of music and musicians. Legend has it that the 3rd-century Roman noblewoman Cecilia vowed her virginity to an angel of God. When she was married against her will, Cecilia sat apart from at her wedding, singing ‘in her heart’ to God as the musicians played. It was this act that would later earn her the ...
While Cecilia is one of the most renowned Roman martyrs, what we know about her is apparently based on legend. Cecilia was born into a noble family in Rome in the second century AD and was married against her will to an aristocrat named Valerian. On their wedding night, she told Valerian that she had taken a vow of virginity and she was ...
Nov 23, 2016 · November 22nd is the feast day of St. Cecilia, one of the most revered of the early virgin martyrs of Rome, as evidenced by her name appearing in the Roman Canon of the Mass. St. Cecilia lived during the Roman Empire in the 3rd century and was born to a wealthy Roman family. She vowed her virginity to Christ, but her parents married her off anyway.
22 November, 2012. Summary: St Cecilia , martyr. Though a late fourth century church in Rome was named after her, nothing is known of her life or death. Popular legends were written about her in the late 5th century, and in the 16th century she was named the patron of music. Honoured by the Church as a holy person, martyred for the faith, her ...
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St. Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, first appeared in the list of Catholic saints sometime in the fifth century, very likely the year 496, when Pope Gelasius named her in his book Sacramentary. Later, in the year 500, a church in Rome was dedicated to her. Born. 200–230 AD Rome. Died.
