When was cecilia born

The Pope gives the pallia to the new metropolitan archbishops during the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul every June Cecilia Statue - 8.

Round St. Cecilia Medal with Prayer Card. Cecilia Keepsake Box. Cecilia Medal. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. The Story of Saint Cecilia.

Ministry and Martyrdom. Has Saint Cecilia made an impact on your life? Tell us how! You may be interested in these:. Who is the patron saint of pandemics? It may not be who you think…. The Story of Saint Basil the Great. The Story of Saint Albert the Great. Catholic Traditions for All Saints Day. The Story of St. Jude Thaddeus. What is the Purpose of the Rosary in Catholic Life? Agnes says:. April 27, at pm. Cecilia spent her time preaching and in her lifetime was able to convert over four hundred people, most of whom were baptized by Pope Urban.

Cecilia was later arrested and condemned to be suffocated in the baths. She was shut in for one night and one day, as fires were heaped up and stoked to a terrifying heat - but Cecilia did not even sweat. The executioner struck her three times but was unable to decapitate her so he left her bleeding and she lived for three days.

Crowds came to her and collected her blood while she preached to them or prayed. On the third day she died and was buried by Pope Urban and his deacons. Cecilia is regarded as the patroness of music, because she heard heavenly music in her heart when she was married, and is represented in art with an organ or organ-pipes in her hand.

Officials exhumed her body in and found her to be incorrupt, the first of all incurrupt saints. She was draped in a silk veil and wore a gold embroidered dress. Officials only looked through the veil in an act of holy reverence and made no further examinations. They also reported a "mysterious and delightful flower-like odor which proceeded from the coffin. Cecilia's remains were transferred to Cecilia's titular church in Trastevere and placed under the high altar.

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Federal Tax Identification Number: Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law. Toggle navigation. Search Catholic Online. Finally, she demanded a church be erected on the site of her execution. Then she died. It might seem ironic these days that she thus became associated with music, which is one of the most sensuous arts.

Yet it must be remembered that in the 15th century when she first became associated with music, music was more often seen not as a sensuous art but as a revelation of the divine order. Like many nuns, which Cecilia was not, her abstinence led to her divine revelations.

Cecilia had to wait over a thousand years before she acquired music as part of her saintly portfolio. Perhaps the growing cult of the Virgin Mary in the 14th century led to a new interest in all female saints, particularly those who resembled the Mary. Cecilia often appears in poses similar to those of the Virgin Mary.

Seizing upon her visions, in particular those she had in the last days of her life, the church began to suggest these visions contained music, which was often thought to be the inevitable concomitant of visions as it was the language of the angels. But it was not till the 16th century that she started appearing in pictures with an organ or other instruments, from which time she became firmly linked with music and the organ. Raphael painted his Ecstasy of St Cecilia sometime before , possibly in honour of a fellow painter Francesco Francia who had supposedly died after seeing Cecilia.

At her feet are a collection of discarded instruments abandoned to show the pre-eminence of the organ, now firmly associated with Cecilia. The organ was for St Cecilia what the lute or lyre was for Orpheus, and the mention of Orpheus is a reminder that someone had to become in Christian mythology what Orpheus had been in Greek, an immortalized musician.

Now complete with her visions accompanied by music and the organ the cult of Cecilia started to grow. Nearly a century later Guido Reni painted Saint Cecilia in In this painting she is dressed to look both contemporary and like a classical maiden. This time she is holding a viol though an organ appears behind her.