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St. Cecilia

St. Cecilia was born of a noble Roman family about the year 214. She was brought up from infancy in the precepts of the Christian Faith and vowed her virginity to God, and, in the spirit of this promise, shunned the pleasures and vanities of the world. She excelled in music, and this charming gift she consecrated to God by composing hymns in His honor.

Bringing Her Husband to God

Against her will, she was given in marriage to Valerian. On the first night of the nuptials she told him of the solemn promise she had made to preserve her virginity, and of the Angel who was ever at her side protect her, and asked Valerian not to do anything that might kindle God’s wrath against him. Valerian, moved by her words, did not dare touch her, and even said that he would believe in Christianity if he could see the Angel.

When Cecilia said that would be impossible unless he received Baptism, he, burning with a desire to see the Angel, replied that he was willing to be baptized. Following the virgin’s advice, Valerian went to Pope Urban, who, on account of the persecution, was hiding among the tombs of the Martyrs on the Appian Way, and by him was baptized. When he returned to Cecilia he found her at prayer, and beside her an Angel shining with a divine splendor.

As soon as he recovered from his fear, he summoned his brother Tiburtius, whom Cecilia also instructed in the Faith of Christ. After being baptized by Pope Urban he was also privileged to see the Angel. Both brothers shortly afterwards courageously suffered martyrdom, under the prefect Almachius. The prefect then commanded Cecilia to be arrested. When he learned that she had distributed among the poor the property of Tiburtius and Valerian he was so enraged that he commanded her to be put to death by the heat of the bath in her own house.

Martyrdom of St. Cecilia

After spending a day and a night there she remained unhurt by the fire; therefore, an executioner was sent who unable to cut off her head even after three strokes, left her half-dead. Three days later, on November 22, 230, Cecilia took her flight to Heaven, adorned with the double palm of virginity and martyrdom. Pope Urban interred her body in the cemetery of Callixtus, and on the ground formerly occupied by the house in which St. Cecilia was born a church was consecrated in her name.

Pope Paschal I brought her body, together with those of Popes Urban and Lucius, and of Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, and laid them all in this church of St. Cecilia in Rome.
St. Cecilia Rosary
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