Saint Cecilia
Roman Catholic saint, martyr and patron saint of music
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ItalyShe sang silently to God while musicians played at her forced wedding, and that private devotion — recorded centuries ago — made her the patron saint of all music. Every November 22, concert halls and churches honor a martyr who never performed.
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Cecilia was a Christian virgin in third-century Rome who vowed her life to God. At her wedding — an arrangement she could not refuse — musicians played while she sang inwardly to the Lord, a detail preserved in her legend. She was martyred for her faith and became one of the few virgin martyrs named in the Canon of the Mass. Pope Urban I founded the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in the third century, believed to stand where her house once did. Her feast day on November 22 became the date for concerts and musical festivals across traditions, her silent prayer at that wedding now the fou…
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- Diálogos... Vol. 32013
- Canciones inéditas1983
- Un ramito de violetas1975
- Cecilia 21973
- Cecilia1972
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