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St Cecilia, or also Cecily in English,lived in Italy (Rome) in the 3rd century. Two hundred years later she was one of the saint women for Christians. She is considered the patroness of music and musicians, but only from the XVI century, and her religious festivity is on the 22nd of November.

Her life is very little known and it is shrouded in legend. She was born in a patrician family, his father wanted her to marry  a man called Valerian, although she promised herself to be a virgin for God. Once married, she told her husband about it, and he also baptised.
After a violent death, she was buried in the catacomb of “San Callisto”, between years 180 and 220. Her incorrupt body was found in the 9th century in the same catacomb where her husband had been buried and moved to the Church in Rome after her name, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.

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Sketch of Saint Cecily for a lady's dress on a model backwarsds at Prado Museum, Madrid,(1645-50)
By José de Ribera

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Santa Cecilia _ Estudio de un vestido de mujer sobre un maniquí visto de espaldas 1645 - José de Ribera

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Saint Cecilia with an Angel (1618-1620)
By Orazio Gentileschi

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Saint Cecilia with an Angel by Orazio Gentileschi-PAINTING 1618-1620

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Mosaic of Saint Cecily and her husband, Saint Valerian, in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere Church in Rome (IX century)
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Saint Cecily and Saint Valerian mosaic IXc Santa Cecilia in Trastevere Church in Rome

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Sculpture of Saint Cecily in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere Church in Rome. (1600)
By Stefano Maderno

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Saint Cecily (1600) - SCULPTURE by Stefano Maderno - Santa Cecilia in Trastevere Church in Rome

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M U S I C A L  W O R K S  I N  H O N O U R  O F     S T.  C E C I L I A

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M U S I C A L  W O R K S  I N  H O N O U R  O F     S T.  C E C I L I A

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Benjamin Britten composed his Hymn to Saint Cecilia in 1942.

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M U S I C A L  W O R K S  I N  H O N O U R  O F     S T.  C E C I L I A

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M U S I C A L  W O R K S  I N  H O N O U R  O F     S T.  C E C I L I A

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The premiere of this Ode for Saint Cecilia, by Händel, took place on St. Cecilia's Day, 22nd November, 1739, in London. Mozart wrote his adaptation in 1790.

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Handel Ode Auf St Caecilia arranged by Mozart - Overture (1 of 10)

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H O W  D I D  S A I N T  C E C I L I A  B E C A M E P A T R O N E S S  O F  M U S I C I A N S?

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H O W  D I D  S A I N T  C E C I L I A  B E C A M E P A T R O N E S S  O F  M U S I C I A N S?

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It is thought that Saint Cecilia, as a member of a patrician family, learnt how to play some musical instruments, probably the lyre, the harp or the zither, which undoubtedly shows her relation with music, but the main reason for having chosen her as saint patron of musicians in 1594 lays in a translation of ancient texts, which moved Pope Gregory XIII to give her this title. However, now it is known that in the III century the word for “organ” referred only to the “bellows” in the furnace, not to the musical instrument, and the original source said in Latin that music sounded around her, not that she was the one playing the organ.
From that time, painters and artists have represented her accompanied by musical instruments.
In 1570, even before becoming saint patron of music, a music festival was celebrated in her honour in the French town of Évreux, Normandy.