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Georg Friedrich Händel - Ode for St Cecilia’s Day HWV 76

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She is usually represented in music pieces as an organ ir harp 

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She is usually represented in music pieces as an organ ir harp 

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Cecilia was arrested as she was burying the bodies of her faithful husband, her brother-in-law and their friend.
Cecilia was later arrested and condemned to be suffocated in the baths. She was shut in for one night and one day, as fires were heaped up and stoked to a terrifying heat - but Cecilia did not even sweat.

When Almachius heard this, he sent an executioner to cut off her head in the baths.

The executioner struck her three times but was unable to decapitate her so he left her bleeding and she lived for three days. Crowds came to her and collected her blood while she preached to them or prayed. On the third day she died and was buried by Pope Urban and his deacons.

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esculturas a santa cecilia - Google Search

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Charles Gounod - St. Cecilia Mass (1855)

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Saint Cecilia and the Angel - Google Search

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Non music pieces of art for Saint Cecilia

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Non music pieces of art for Saint Cecilia

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 From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
      This universal frame began:
  When nature underneath a heap
      Of jarring atoms lay,
    And could not heave her head,
The tuneful voice was heard from high,
    ‘Arise, ye more than dead!'
Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,
  In order to their stations leap,
     And Music’s power obey.
From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
   This universal frame began:
   From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
    When Jubal struck the chorded shell,
  His listening brethren stood around,
    And, wondering, on their faces fell
  To worship that celestial sound:
Less than a God they thought there could not dwell
    Within the hollow of that shell,
    That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?

    The trumpet’s loud clangour
      Excites us to arms,
    With shrill notes of anger,
      And mortal alarms.
  The double double double beat
      Of the thundering drum
      Cries Hark! the foes come;
  Charge, charge, ‘tis too late to retreat!

    The soft complaining flute,
    In dying notes, discovers
    The woes of hopeless lovers,
Whose dirge is whisper’d by the warbling lute.

    Sharp violins proclaim
  Their jealous pangs and desperation,
  Fury, frantic indignation,
  Depth of pains, and height of passion,
    For the fair, disdainful dame.

    But O, what art can teach,
    What human voice can reach,
      The sacred organ’s praise?
    Notes inspiring holy love,
  Notes that wing their heavenly ways
    To mend the choirs above.

  Orpheus could lead the savage race;
  And trees unrooted left their place,
    Sequacious of the lyre;
But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder higher:
When to her organ vocal breath was given,
  An angel heard, and straight appear’d
    Mistaking Earth for Heaven.

GRAND CHORUS.


As from the power of sacred lays
  The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator’s praise
  To all the Blest above;
So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky!

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Early in life she declared she would forever remain a virgin and serve Christ. Her parents didn't take this vow seriously. Cecilia was against her will betrothed to marry a man named Valarian. Some people say she is the patroness bacause on her wedding she was singing to God

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Early in life she declared she would forever remain a virgin and serve Christ. Her parents didn't take this vow seriously. Cecilia was against her will betrothed to marry a man named Valarian. Some people say she is the patroness bacause on her wedding she was singing to God