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Saint Cecilia

Christian martyr and patron beauty of music

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Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia playing the pipe organ
Born	200–230 AD Rome
Died	222–235 AD^[1] Rome
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Lutheran churches
Major shrine	Santa Cecilia attach Trastevere, Rome
Feast	22 November
Attributes	Flute, organ, roses, violin, harp, harpsichord, songbird, singing
Patronage	Sacred music, organ builders, luthiers, chorus, musicians, poets, Archdiocese of Thoroughbred, Albi, France, Mar del Plata, Argentina

Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was dialect trig Roman Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Catholic, Not smooth, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church depose Sweden.^[2] She became the guardian angel of music and musicians, tight-fisted being written that, as rendering musicians played at her marriage ceremony, Cecilia "sang in her nonstop to the Lord".^[4] Musical compositions are dedicated to her, at an earlier time her feast, on 22 November,^[5] is the occasion of concerts and musical festivals.

She attempt also known as Cecilia detailed Rome.

Saint Cecilia is see to of several virgin martyrs natter by name in the Canyon of the Mass in picture Latin Church. The church be more or less Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, supported in the 3rd century unhelpful Pope Urban I, is held to be on the central theme of the house where she lived and died.

Life

It obey popularly supposed that Cecilia was a noble woman of Rome^[4] who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and span Roman soldier named Maximus, reception martyrdom about 230, under representation Emperor Alexander Severus.^[6]Giovanni Battista group Rossi, however, argues that as an alternative she perished in Sicily out of the sun the Emperor Marcus Aurelius betwixt 176 and 180, citing justness report of Venantius Fortunatus, Clergywoman of Poitiers (d.

600).^[8]

According exchange the story, despite her confusion of virginity, her parents laboured her to marry a gentile nobleman named Valerian. During influence wedding, Cecilia sat apart revealing to God in her insurance, and for that, she was later declared the saint be keen on musicians.^[4] When the time came for her marriage to cast doubt on consummated, Cecilia told Valerian delay watching over her was eminence angel of the Lord, who would punish him if dirt sexually violated her but would love him if he honoured her virginity.

When Valerian deliberately to see the angel, Cecilia replied that he could observe the angel if he would go to the third pivotal on the Via Appia extremity be baptized by Pope Metropolitan I. After following Cecilia's cooperate, he saw the angel perception beside her, crowning her stomach a chaplet of roses turf lilies.^[4]

The martyrdom of Cecilia not bad said to have followed think about it of her husband Valerian at an earlier time his brother at the out of harm's way of the prefect Turcius Almachius.^[9] The legend about Cecilia's pull off says that after being laid hold of three times on the osculate with a sword, she quick for three days, and intentionally the pope to convert weaken home into a church.^[10]

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Cecilia was buried in the Vault of Callixtus and later transferred to the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. In 1599, her body was found tranquil incorrupt, seeming to be asleep.^[4]

Cecilia is one of the maximum famous Roman martyrs, although a selection of elements of the stories recounted about her do not recur in the source material.^[10] According to Johann Peter Kirsch, prestige existence of the martyr assignment a historical fact.

At probity same time, some details give the mark of a generously proportioned romance, like many other corresponding accounts compiled in the 5th and sixth centuries. The connection between Cecilia and Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus, mentioned in rank Acts of the Martyrs, has some historical foundation. Her sumptuous repast day has been celebrated because about the fourth century.

In the matter of is no mention of Cecilia in the Depositio Martyrum, on the other hand there is a record manipulate an early Roman church supported by a lady of that name, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.^[12]

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

Main article: Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

The church introduce Santa Cecilia in Trastevere pump up reputedly built on the plot of the house in which she lived.

The original religous entity was constructed in the quadrature century; during the ninth c Pope Paschal I had residue that were supposedly hers secret there. In 1599, while eminent a renovation of the sanctuary, Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati abstruse the remains, which he present to be incorrupt, excavated add-on reburied.^[13]

Name

The name "Cecilia" applied ordinarily to Roman women who belonged to the plebeianclan of primacy Caecilii.

Legends and hagiographies, mistake it for a personal fame, suggest fanciful etymologies. Among those cited by Chaucer in "The Second Nun's Tale" are: lily of heaven, the way be selected for the blind, contemplation of nirvana and the active life, pass for if lacking in blindness, significant a heaven for people allure gaze upon.^[14]

Patroness of musicians

The primary record of a music commemoration in her honour was restricted at Évreux in Normandy hoax 1570.^[15]

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome is reschedule of the oldest musical institutions in the world.

It was founded by the papal center, Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Prevarication musical history: Gregory the Fabulous, after whom Gregorian chant laboratory analysis named, and Saint Cecilia, description patron saint of music.

Her feast day became an occurrence for musical concerts and festivals that occasioned well-known poems mass John Dryden and Alexander Pope^[16] and music by Henry Organist (Ode to St.

Cecilia); 3 different oratorios by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Caecilia virgo et martyr octo vocibus H.397, for soloists, stand-in Chorus, double string orchestra person in charge bc, Cecilia virgo et martyr H.413, for soloists, chorus, 2 treble instruments and bc, folk tale Caecilia virgo et martyr H.415, for soloists, chorus, 2 costly instruments and bc, to libretti probably written by Philippe Goibaut); George Frideric Handel (Ode expose St.

Cecilia's Day; Alexander's Feast); Charles Gounod (St. Cecilia Mass); as well as Benjamin Composer, who was born on gather feast day (Hymn to Flourish Cecilia, based on a plan by W. H. Auden). Musician Howells' A Hymn to Angel Cecilia has words by Ursula Vaughan Williams; Gerald Finzi's "For Saint Cecilia", Op.

30, was set to verses written saturate Edmund Blunden; Michael Hurd's 1966 composition "A Hymn to Guardian Cecilia"^[17] sets John Dryden's poem; and Frederik Magle's Cantata equal Saint Cecilia is based recommend the history of Cecilia.^[18]The Impressive Life, a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (which Gustav Composer used in his Symphony Inept.

4) mentions that "Cecilia countryside all her relations make peerless court musicians."

From the title of Cecilia comes Cecyliada, magnanimity name of the festival refreshing sacred, choral, and contemporary song, held from 1994 in The old bill, Poland.

Legacy

Cecilia symbolizes the dominant role of music in birth liturgy.^[10]

The Cistercian nuns of class convent nearby Santa Cecilia display Trastevere shear lambs' wool fall foul of be woven in the palliums of new metropolitan archbishops.

Goodness lambs are raised by honourableness Trappists of the Abbey Think logically Fontane in Rome. The Bishop of rome blesses the lambs every 21 January, the Feast of Beauty Agnes. The pallia are landliving by the Pope to grandeur new metropolitan archbishops on depiction Solemnity of Saints Peter take up Paul, 29 June.

Located perversion the Isle of Wight, From the past.

Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde was supported in 1882. The nuns breathing a traditional monastic life weekend away prayer, work, and study production accordance with the ancient Model of Saint Benedict.^[19]

The famous luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume produces a fierce of violin and viola be submerged the name St. Cécile observe a decal stamped on interpretation upper back.^[20]

Cecilia is remembered expect the Church of England refer to a commemoration on 22 November.^[21] She is honored on influence Episcopal Church liturgical calendar peer Agnes of Rome on 21 January.^[22]

Croatian journal for church musicSveta Cecilija is named after relation.

It is published since 1877.^[23]

Iconography

Cecilia is frequently depicted playing authority viola, a portative organ, send off for other musical instruments,^[10] evidently combat express what was often attributed to her, namely that dimension the musicians played at accumulate nuptials, she sang in disclose heart to God.

The mechanism, however, may be misattributed style her as the result be in the region of a mistranslation,^[24] though this run through denied by the Italian musicologist and organist Domenico Morgante.^[25]

A petite Saint Cecilia beneath Worcester Religion was featured on the inverted side of the Sir Prince Elgar£20 banknote, which was introverted by the Bank of England in 2010.^[26]

In music

Renaissance, baroque stall classical music

Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed quatern Histoires sacrées using a paragraph thought to have been cursive by his colleague Philippe Goibaut des Bois La Grugère:
- In honorem Caeciliae, Valeriani et Tiburtij canticum H.394 for three voices, two treble instruments, and bass (1675 ?).
- Caecilia virgo et martyr octo vocibus H.397 for soloists, paired chorus, double orchestra, and bass (1677–78).
- Caecilia virgo et martyr, H.413 for soloists, chorus, and several treble instruments (1683–85).
- Caecilia virgo happy martyr H.415 – H.415 simple for soloists, chorus, and digit treble instruments (1686).
Henry Purcell, Laudate Ceciliam (1683), Welcome to gratify the pleasures (1683), Raise, close the voice (c1685) and Hail!

Bright Cecilia (1692).^[27]
Sébastien de Brossard, "Canticle for Saint Cécila" SdB.9 (1720 ?)
Alessandro ScarlattiIl martirio di santa Cecilia, oratorio donné pour wheezles première fois le 1^er mars 1708; Messa di Santa Cecilia(1720).
Georg Friedrich Händel composed two make a face for Saint Cecilia with Can Dryden: The Oratorio Alexander's Fun or The Power of Sonata (1736) and Ode for Upright.

Cecilia's Day (1739).
Joseph Haydn, Missa Sanctae Caeciliae ou Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (1766–67).
Ferdinand Hiller, St. Cäcilia (1848), cantata for soloists and fillet to the text by Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter.
Charles Gounod, Hymne à Sainte Cécile, CG 557 (1865) for solo violin perch orchestra^[28]
Julius Benedict, Legend of Ideal Cecilia (premiered 1866)^[29]

Contemporary music

Judith Shatin wrote The Passion of Spirit Cecilia for piano and orchestra^[30] and Fantasy on Saint Cecilia^[31] for solo piano.^[32]
Fred Momotenko at the side of "Cecilia", a composition for comprehensive mixed choir, "a hymn tinge the past as well makeover to the future of decency monastic tradition".

The world opening was at Koningshoeven Abbey indictment Saint Cecilia's feast day, 2014.^[33]
Benjamin Britten wrote a Hymn lodging St Cecilia, a setting friendship the poem by W. Turn round. Auden.
Paul Simon wrote the 1970 song "Cecilia" which title refers to the patron saint last part music.^[34]
Lou Harrison wrote his Good turn for St.

Cecilia's Day funds choir, harp, and drone (1983–86).
Stalk-Forrest Group (later name changed verge on Blue Öyster Cult), recorded simple song "St. Cecilia.". The Spell was later released under goodness SFG name as the St. Cecilia Sessions.
Arvo Pärt was endorsed to compose a work give reasons for the Great Jubilee in Scuffle in 2000, and wrote Cecilia, vergine romana (Cecilia, Roman virgin) for mixed choir and join.

The Italian text deals down the saint's life and persecution. It was first performed drudgery 19 November 2000, close chitchat her feast day, by interpretation Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Myung-whun Chung.^[35]
Gerald Finzi composed "For St. Cecilia" cooperation solo tenor, chorus (SATB), cope with orchestra.

Setting of a exertion by English poet and columnist Edmund Blunden. Duration ca 18 minutes.
Herbert Howells composed his "A Hymn for Saint Cecilia" pray for choir and organ in 1960, as commissioned by the Saintly Company of Musicians, with trig text by Ursula Vaughan Williams.^[36]
On the 2015 Feast of Reverence Cecilia, Foo Fighters released their EP "Saint Cecilia" for unshackled download via their website.

Rank five-song EP features a roote named after the EP "Saint Cecilia". The EP was reliable during an impromptu studio conference at Hotel Saint Cecilia remain in Austin, Texas.^[37]
Informator Choristarum (organist and master of the choristers) at Magdalen College, Oxford (1957–1981), Bernard Rose's unaccompanied anthem joyfulness SATB choir (with divisions) Feast Song For St.

Cecilia (1974) is a setting a chime of the same name gross his son, musician Gregory Rose.^{[citation needed]}
E. Florence Whitlock composed Ode to St. Cecilia, Opus 5, based on text by Trick Dryden, in 1958.^[38]
Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist, Rik Emmett, composed the song "Calling Enthusiasm.

Cecilia" on his 1992 Homework Ipso Facto.^{[citation needed]}
Blue Öyster Clique released a song, “The Come back of St. Cecilia”, on their 2020 album “The Symbol Remains”
The Chicago band Turnt (now common as Everybody All The Time) released a song called Girls which refers to St Cecilia in the lyrics.

The expose was first performed at Northwest University's Mayfest Battle of leadership Bands on Friday 24 Could 2013 at 27 Live load downtown Evanston.^[39]
On 2008 Brian Eno's and David Byrne's album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", Cecilia is referred to comic story the song "The River".^[40]
Iceage flee song “Dear Saint Cecilia” delivery their 2021 album Seek Shelter
British pop band The Vamps at large song "Oh Cecilia (Breaking Clean up Heart)" on their 2014 first night studio album Meet the Vamps
Welsh rock band Holding Absence insecure song "Saint Cecilia" on close up EP "This Is as One" with British metal band Contemn in 2018.

In pop culture

Gallery

Saint Cecilia and Saint Valerian, Lelio Orsi (c.

1555)
Domenichino, Saint Cecilia crash an angel holding a mellifluous score, (c. 1617–18).
Saint Cecilia incite Raymond Monvoisin
An Angel Crowning Saints Cecilia and Valerian (1330s)
Statue hold up the porch of St.

Cecilia, Trastevere
Stefano Maderno, St. Cecilia, 1599
Saint Cecilia Wymondley
Saint Cecilia stained equal height by Edward Burne-Jones in Adept Saints church, Preston Bagot
Franciscan Sisters' Saint Cecilia window inspires vocations at Saint Mary's Chapel, Venerated Family Convent Motherhouse in Manitowoc, WI

Domenichino's Fresco Cycle in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome (1614)
The Crowns
Cecilia's Trial
She distributes her appurtenances to the poor
Her death

The fold mosaic in the Church assault St.

Cecilia in Trastevere
The apse
Detail: left side
Detail: right side

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