Saint Cecilia is said to have been born in the 2nd or 3d century A.D in Rome. However, the exact dates are unknown. She is believed to have been to daughter of an extremely wealthy Roman family and was a faithful Christian from birth.
Cecilia was given in marriage to a pagan named Valerian, but she had vowed her virginity to God, and wore sackcloth, fasted and prayed in hopes of keeping this promise. Saint Cecilia disclosed her wishes to her husband on their wedding night and told him that an angel watched over her to guard her purity. Valerian responded by asking to see the angel, so St. Cecilia told him to travel to the third milestone on the Via Appia sent him to become baptized by Pope Urbanus. Following his baptism, Valerian returned to his wife and found an angel at her side. The angel then crowned Cecilia with a chaplet of rose and lily and when Valerian's brother, Tibertius, heard of the angel and his brother's baptism, he also was baptized and together the brothers dedicated their lives to burying the saints who were murdered each day by the prefect of the city, Turcius Almachius.
Both brothers were eventually arrested and brought before the prefect where they were executed after they refused to offer a sacrifice to the gods. As her husband and brother-in-law buried the dead, St. Cecilia …show more content…
Cecilia is known to have heard heavenly music inside her heart during her marriage to Valerian. She is the admired as the patron saint of music, especially church music, as well as that of musicians, composers, instrument makers and poets. Prayers to her ask God's blessings on musicians and the hymns they proclaim to Him. Musician or not in her real life, St. Cecilia, by her devout, musical followings has certainly earned the right to be called the patroness of music and is represented in art with an organ or organ-pipes in her hand. The name Cecilia means blind so she is also the Catholic patron saint of the blind, although we don't know if she herself couldn't
Cecilia was given in marriage to a pagan named Valerian, but she had vowed her virginity to God, and wore sackcloth, fasted and prayed in hopes of keeping this promise. Saint Cecilia disclosed her wishes to her husband on their wedding night and told him that an angel watched over her to guard her purity. Valerian responded by asking to see the angel, so St. Cecilia told him to travel to the third milestone on the Via Appia sent him to become baptized by Pope Urbanus. Following his baptism, Valerian returned to his wife and found an angel at her side. The angel then crowned Cecilia with a chaplet of rose and lily and when Valerian's brother, Tibertius, heard of the angel and his brother's baptism, he also was baptized and together the brothers dedicated their lives to burying the saints who were murdered each day by the prefect of the city, Turcius Almachius.
Both brothers were eventually arrested and brought before the prefect where they were executed after they refused to offer a sacrifice to the gods. As her husband and brother-in-law buried the dead, St. Cecilia …show more content…
Cecilia is known to have heard heavenly music inside her heart during her marriage to Valerian. She is the admired as the patron saint of music, especially church music, as well as that of musicians, composers, instrument makers and poets. Prayers to her ask God's blessings on musicians and the hymns they proclaim to Him. Musician or not in her real life, St. Cecilia, by her devout, musical followings has certainly earned the right to be called the patroness of music and is represented in art with an organ or organ-pipes in her hand. The name Cecilia means blind so she is also the Catholic patron saint of the blind, although we don't know if she herself couldn't