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Santa Cecilia is one of the martyrs most revered by Christians and is depicted playing a musical instrument or singing. The Catholic Church celebrates it on November 22 to commemorate his death.

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Santa Cecilia.
Mosaic in the church of his name.
The oldest historical reference on the saint dates back to the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum", of the 4th century, where its name is mentioned twice: August 11, the feast of the martyr Tiburcio, and September 16, the date of her burial in the catacombs of Calixtus. The feast of November 22 that we still celebrate today is the one that marks the church of the 4th century dedicated to it and is located in the Roman Trastévere, which could be raised and donated to the church by the saint herself.

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Santa Cecilia_ Mosaico en iglesia de Santa Cecilia

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Apparently, Hagia Sophia had no figurative mosaics during its first construction in Justinian times, and only from the second Golden Age will they appear.
Many of this will be eliminated, first by the destruction of the Crusaders in the XIII and porteriorly by becoming a mosque in the XV after the Turkish conquest, so today we only retain a few magnificent examples, to which we will dedicate this post.
In the endoncardtex (second nartex), above the main door we find the first of them. Dated around the ninth or 10th centuries in it already appear some typical features of the Byzantine: the Pantocrátor and, next to him, the sovereign (basileus Leo VI or his son Constantine VII) in attitude of submission and offering, recalling the origin of his power (here we analyze it), derived from the divine and thus justified.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012
THE MOSAICS OF HAGIA SOPHIA

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Cecilia managed to get her husband to respect her virginity and convert to Christianity. Valerio was baptized by Pope Urban, and, along with his brother Tiburcio, also converted, gave sepelio to the martyrs of the persecution of Turk Almaki. Denounced by this practice, both brothers were beheaded.

Cecilia was also denounced and sentenced to be thrown into the fire of the baths of her own home, but was unhinged. Turkish Almachi then ordered it to be slit; Cecilia, wounded three times with the axe, expired after three days of agony. Pope Urban, helped by his deaconos, buried the martyr and devoted his house as a basilica.