Saint Cecilia
Virgin and martyr, patroness of church music, died at Rome.
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, “St. Cecilia”
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Patronages
According to Catholic tradition, as recorded in the sources cited for each patronage:
Church music
Virgin and martyr, patroness of church music, died at Rome.
Recorded as patron of church music in:
Music
S. Caecilia is regarded as the patroness of music, and is represented in art with an organ or organ-pipes in her hand.
Recorded as patron of music in:
- Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, 1897, S. CECILIA, V.M.
Musicians
Recorded as patron of musicians in:
- Husenbeth, Emblems of Saints, 1882, PATRONS OF ARTS, TRADES, AND PROFESSIONS.
Feast day
- November 22 · General Roman Calendar
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, “St. Cecilia”
This saint, so often glorified in the fine arts and in poetry, is one of the most venerated martyrs of Christian antiquity.
The oldest historical account of St. Cecilia is found in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum";
from this it is evident that her feast was celebrated in the Roman Church in the fourth century.
Her name occurs under different dates in the above-mentioned martyrology;
its mention under 11 August, the feast of the martyr Tiburtius, is evidently a later and erroneous addition, due to the fact that this Tiburtius, who was buried on the Via Labicana, was wrongly identified with Tiburtius, the brother-in-law of St. Cecilia, mentioned in the Acts of her martyrdom.
Perhaps also there was another Roman martyr of the name of Cecilia buried on the Via Labicana.
Works of art
