Saint Cecilia
Roman Catholic saint, martyr and patron saint of music · Italy · Musicians · Lived 180 to 230 · aged 50
Saint Cecilia is read about 996 times a day, in 55 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?She 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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About this person
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 foundation for centuries of composition in her name.
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