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Bookmark or Share- St. Cecilia - Saints & Angels - Catholic OnlineSt. 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 1599 and found her to be incorrupt, the first of all incurrupt saints.
- St. Cecilia - Encyclopedia BritannicaSaint Cecilia, one of the most famous virgin martyrs of the early church and the patron saint of music and musicians. According to tradition, she was first burned and then beheaded for distributing her possessions to the poor in 3rd-century Rome.
- Saint Cecilia - WikipediaSaint Cecilia is one of several virgin martyrs commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass in the Latin Church. The church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, founded in the 3rd century by Pope Urban I, is believed to be on the site of the house where she lived and died.
- St Cecilia, First incorruptible Saint - Roman Catholic SaintsSaint Cecilia. Unknown – 177 A.D. Feast Day – November 22. History indicates that the first saint whose body experienced the phenomenon of incorruption is St Cecilia, the patroness of musicians.
- St. Cecilia | EWTNSt. Cecilia was a native of Rome, of a good family, and educated in the principles and perfect practice of the Christian religion. In her youth she by vow consecrated her virginity to God, yet was compelled by her parents to marry a nobleman named Valerian.
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