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Feast: November 22 - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CECILIA.htm

SAINT CECILIA VIRGIN, MARTYR SECOND OR THIRD CENTURY Feast: November 22

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St. Cecilia - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/SCECILIA.htm

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The name of St. Cecilia has always been most illustrious in the church, and ever since the primitive ages is mentioned with distinction in the canon of the mass, and in the sacramentaries and calendars of the church. Her spouse Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus, an officer, who were her companions in martyrdom, are also mentioned in the same authentic and venerable writings.

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Cecelia, The Second Nun's Tale, Saint Cecelia, Dave Kopel - English
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~eflst4/cecelia.html

November 22, the date of President Kennedy's death, provides more than one reminder of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend the greatest human evils, for November 22 is also the day of Saint Cecelia. Patron Saint of Music, Cecelia is one of the very few saints to be named in the Canon of the Mass. Through the middle ages, her story was among the most popular of all the lives of the saints, earning a place in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as the subject of "The Second Nun's Tale."

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St. Cecilia - English
URL: http://www.cin.org/cecilia.html

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A Roman maiden of noble family, devoted to prayer, she was given in marriage against her will to a pagan youth named Valerian. On the wedding day 'while the pipes (organs) were praying' for the festivities, 'she sang in her heart' to Christ, praying that her virginity might be preserved intact.

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Patron Saints Index: Cecilia - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintc04.htm

Patron Saint Index profile of Saint Cecilia; illustrated.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Cecilia - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03471b.htm

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Virgin and martyr, patroness of church music, died at Rome. This saint, so often glorified in the fine arts and in poetry, is one of the most venerated martyrs of Christian antiquity. The oldest historical account of St. Cecilia is found in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum"; from this it is evident that her feast was celebrated in the Roman Church in the fourth century.

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