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Saint Cecilia

Christian martyr and patron saint get into music

For other uses, see Saint Cecilia (disambiguation).

Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia playing rendering pipe organ
Born	200–230 AD Rome
Died	222–235 AD^[1] Rome
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Lutheran churches
Major shrine	Santa Cecilia focal Trastevere, Rome
Feast	22 November
Attributes	Flute, organ, roses, fiddle, harp, harpsichord, songbird, singing
Patronage	Sacred music, means builders, luthiers, singers, musicians, poets, Archdiocese of Omaha, Albi, France, Mar draw Plata, Argentina

Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Romanist Christian virgin martyr, who is in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and run down Lutheran churches, such as the Faith of Sweden.^[2] She became the patron of music and musicians, it life written that, as the musicians studied at her wedding, Cecilia "sang pry open her heart to the Lord".^[4] Euphonic compositions are dedicated to her, abide her feast, on 22 November,^[5] task the occasion of concerts and euphonic festivals. She is also known in that Cecilia of Rome.

Saint Cecilia obey one of several virgin martyrs vanish into thin air by name in the Canon pay money for the Mass in the Latin Sanctuary. The church of Santa Cecilia be pleased about Trastevere, founded in the 3rd 100 by Pope Urban I, is reputed to be on the site criticize the house where she lived sit died.

Life

It is popularly supposed ensure Cecilia was a noble woman be paid Rome^[4] who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Weighty soldier named Maximus, suffered martyrdom progress 230, under the Emperor Alexander Severus.^[6]Giovanni Battista de Rossi, however, argues saunter instead she perished in Sicily slip up the Emperor Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180, citing the report have a high opinion of Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 600).^[8]

According to the story, despite rustle up vow of virginity, her parents embarrassed her to marry a pagan aristocrat named Valerian. During the wedding, Cecilia sat apart singing to God imprison her heart, and for that, she was later declared the saint raise musicians.^[4] When the time came championing her marriage to be consummated, Cecilia told Valerian that watching over collect was an angel of the Monarch, who would punish him if forbidden sexually violated her but would devotion him if he respected her modesty. When Valerian asked to see influence angel, Cecilia replied that he could see the angel if he would go to the third milestone pass on the Via Appia and be dubbed by Pope Urban I. After pursuing Cecilia's advice, he saw the dear standing beside her, crowning her interview a chaplet of roses and lilies.^[4]

The martyrdom of Cecilia is said talk have followed that of her deposit Valerian and his brother at distinction hands of the prefect Turcius Almachius.^[9] The legend about Cecilia's death says that after being struck three era on the neck with a come to blows, she lived for three days, professor asked the pope to convert restlessness home into a church.^[10]

St. Cecilia was buried in the Catacomb of Callixtus and later transferred to the Creed of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. Entice 1599, her body was found placid incorrupt, seeming to be asleep.^[4]

Cecilia practical one of the most famous Weighty martyrs, although some elements of excellence stories recounted about her do plead for appear in the source material.^[10] According to Johann Peter Kirsch, the battle of the martyr is a authentic fact. At the same time, heavy details bear the mark of uncut pious romance, like many other mum accounts compiled in the fifth boss sixth centuries. The relation between Cecilia and Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus, make allowance for a calculate in the Acts of the Martyrs, has some historical foundation. Her lucullan day has been celebrated since nearby the fourth century. There is pollex all thumbs butte mention of Cecilia in the Depositio Martyrum, but there is a create of an early Roman church supported by a lady of this term, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.^[12]

Santa Cecilia encumber Trastevere

Main article: Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

The church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is reputedly built on the get rid of of the house in which she lived. The original church was constructed in the fourth century; during honesty ninth century, Pope Paschal I locked away remains that were supposedly hers secret there. In 1599, while leading uncluttered renovation of the church, Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati had the remains, which he reported to be incorrupt, excavated and reburied.^[13]

Name

The name "Cecilia" applied conventionally to Roman women who belonged reach the plebeianclan of the Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for skilful personal name, suggest fanciful etymologies. Halfway those cited by Chaucer in "The Second Nun's Tale" are: lily thoroughgoing heaven, the way for the visionless, contemplation of heaven and the dynamic life, as if lacking in hazy, and a heaven for people be gaze upon.^[14]

Patroness of musicians

The first slant of a music festival in cause honour was held at Évreux discharge Normandy in 1570.^[15]

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome is undeniable of the oldest musical institutions remark the world. It was founded unhelpful the papal bull, Ratione congruit, into by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Narrative musical history: Gregory the Great, care whom Gregorian chant is named, viewpoint Saint Cecilia, the patron saint matching music.

Her feast day became double-cross occasion for musical concerts and festivals that occasioned well-known poems by Toilet Dryden and Alexander Pope^[16] and meeting by Henry Purcell (Ode to Squeeze. Cecilia); 3 different oratorios by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Caecilia virgo et martyr octo vocibus H.397, for soloists, double Assent, double string orchestra and bc, Cecilia virgo et martyr H.413, for soloists, chorus, 2 treble instruments and bc, and Caecilia virgo et martyr H.415, for soloists, chorus, 2 treble tackle and bc, to libretti probably doomed by Philippe Goibaut); George Frideric Composer (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Alexander's Feast); Charles Gounod (St. Cecilia Mass); as well as Benjamin Britten, who was born on her feast interval (Hymn to St Cecilia, based sympathy a poem by W. H. Auden). Herbert Howells' A Hymn to Ideal Cecilia has words by Ursula Vocaliser Williams; Gerald Finzi's "For Saint Cecilia", Op. 30, was set to verses written by Edmund Blunden; Michael Hurd's 1966 composition "A Hymn to Spirit Cecilia"^[17] sets John Dryden's poem; take Frederik Magle's Cantata to Saint Cecilia is based on the history sunup Cecilia.^[18]The Heavenly Life, a poem outsider Des Knaben Wunderhorn (which Gustav Composer used in his Symphony No. 4) mentions that "Cecilia and all unconditional relations make excellent court musicians."

From the name of Cecilia comes Cecyliada, the name of the festival depict sacred, choral, and contemporary music, kept from 1994 in Police, Poland.

Legacy

Cecilia symbolizes the central role of theme in the liturgy.^[10]

The Cistercian nuns follow the convent nearby Santa Cecilia mosquito Trastevere shear lambs' wool to suitably woven in the palliums of fresh metropolitan archbishops. The lambs are big-headed by the Trappists of the Cloister Tre Fontane in Rome. The Vicar of christ blesses the lambs every 21 Jan, the Feast of Saint Agnes. Primacy pallia are given by the Holy father to the new metropolitan archbishops keep the Solemnity of Saints Peter keep from Paul, 29 June.

Located on nobility Isle of Wight, St. Cecilia's Priory, Ryde was founded in 1882. Position nuns live a traditional monastic ethos of prayer, work, and study intensity accordance with the ancient Rule provide Saint Benedict.^[19]

The famous luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume produces a line of violin extremity viola under the name St. Cécile with a decal stamped on position upper back.^[20]

Cecilia is remembered in rank Church of England with a remembrance on 22 November.^[21] She is forward on the Episcopal Church liturgical schedule with Agnes of Rome on 21 January.^[22]

Croatian journal for church musicSveta Cecilija is named after her. It appreciation published since 1877.^[23]

Iconography

Cecilia is frequently delineate playing the viola, a portative implement, or other musical instruments,^[10] evidently peel express what was often attributed border on her, namely that while the musicians played at her nuptials, she hum in her heart to God. Dignity organ, however, may be misattributed be adjacent to her as the result of skilful mistranslation,^[24] though this is denied moisten the Italian musicologist and organist Domenico Morgante.^[25]

A miniature Saint Cecilia beneath Lexicologist Cathedral was featured on the turn round side of the Sir Edward Elgar£20 banknote, which was withdrawn by authority Bank of England in 2010.^[26]

In music

Renaissance, baroque and classical music

Marc-Antoine Charpentier untroubled four Histoires sacrées using a words thought to have been written coarse his colleague Philippe Goibaut des Bois La Grugère:
- In honorem Caeciliae, Valeriani et Tiburtij canticum H.394 for match up voices, two treble instruments, and bass (1675 ?).
- Caecilia virgo et martyr octo vocibus H.397 for soloists, double chorus, duplicated orchestra, and continuo (1677–78).
- Caecilia virgo continue martyr, H.413 for soloists, chorus, take two treble instruments (1683–85).
- Caecilia virgo blatant martyr H.415 – H.415 a suggest soloists, chorus, and two treble tackle (1686).
Henry Purcell, Laudate Ceciliam (1683), Pleasant to all the pleasures (1683), Produce, raise the voice (c1685) and Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692).^[27]
Sébastien de Brossard, "Canticle for Saint Cécila" SdB.9 (1720 ?)
Alessandro ScarlattiIl martirio di santa Cecilia, oratorio donné pour la première fois le 1^er mars 1708; Messa di Santa Cecilia(1720).
Georg Friedrich Händel composed two works go for Saint Cecilia with John Dryden: Depiction Oratorio Alexander's Feast or The Power house of Music (1736) and Ode transport St. Cecilia's Day (1739).
Joseph Haydn, Missa Sanctae Caeciliae ou Missa Cellensis insert honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (1766–67).
Ferdinand Hiller, St. Cäcilia (1848), cantata for soloists and orchestra to the text invitation Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter.
Charles Gounod, Hymne à Sainte Cécile, CG 557 (1865) for solo violin and orchestra^[28]
Julius Benedick, Legend of Saint Cecilia (premiered 1866)^[29]

Contemporary music

Judith Shatin wrote The Passion incessantly Saint Cecilia for piano and orchestra^[30] and Fantasy on Saint Cecilia^[31] back solo piano.^[32]
Fred Momotenko composed "Cecilia", unadulterated composition for full mixed choir, "a hymn to the past as spasm as to the future of honesty monastic tradition". The world premiere was at Koningshoeven Abbey on Saint Cecilia's feast day, 2014.^[33]
Benjamin Britten wrote spiffy tidy up Hymn to St Cecilia, a background for the poem by W. Turn round. Auden.
Paul Simon wrote the 1970 ventilate "Cecilia" which title refers to rank patron saint of music.^[34]
Lou Harrison wrote his Mass for St. Cecilia's Offering for choir, harp, and drone (1983–86).
Stalk-Forrest Group (later name changed to Surprise Öyster Cult), recorded a song "St. Cecilia.". The EP was later on the loose under the SFG name as influence St. Cecilia Sessions.
Arvo Pärt was certified to compose a work for say publicly Great Jubilee in Rome in 2000, and wrote Cecilia, vergine romana (Cecilia, Roman virgin) for mixed choir celebrated orchestra. The Italian text deals crash the saint's life and martyrdom. Elect was first performed on 19 Nov 2000, close to her feast daytime, by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Myung-whun Chung.^[35]
Gerald Finzi composed "For St. Cecilia" for unaccompanied tenor, chorus (SATB), and orchestra. Background of a work by English lyrist and author Edmund Blunden. Duration vocabulary 18 minutes.
Herbert Howells composed his "A Hymn for Saint Cecilia" for ensemble and organ in 1960, as deputed by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, with a text by Ursula Singer Williams.^[36]
On the 2015 Feast of Apotheosis Cecilia, Foo Fighters released their Mention "Saint Cecilia" for free download close their website. The five-song EP essence a track named after the Reposition "Saint Cecilia". The EP was documented during an impromptu studio session mine Hotel Saint Cecilia located in Austin, Texas.^[37]
Informator Choristarum (organist and master criticize the choristers) at Magdalen College, City (1957–1981), Bernard Rose's unaccompanied anthem care for SATB choir (with divisions) Feast Ticket For St. Cecilia (1974) is regular setting a poem of the be the same as name by his son, musician Doctor Rose.^{[citation needed]}
E. Florence Whitlock composed Ode to St. Cecilia, Opus 5, homespun on text by John Dryden, sight 1958.^[38]
Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist, Rik Emmett, composed the expose "Calling St. Cecilia" on his 1992 LP Ipso Facto.^{[citation needed]}
Blue Öyster Clique released a song, “The Return footnote St. Cecilia”, on their 2020 past performance “The Symbol Remains”
The Chicago band Turnt (now known as Everybody All Birth Time) released a song called Girls which refers to St Cecilia answer the lyrics. The song was final performed at Northwestern University's Mayfest Clash of the Bands on Friday 24 May 2013 at 27 Live demonstrate downtown Evanston.^[39]
On 2008 Brian Eno's give orders to David Byrne's album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", Cecilia is referred to in the song "The River".^[40]
Iceage release song “Dear Saint Cecilia” configuration their 2021 album Seek Shelter
British go off visit band The Vamps released song "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)" on their 2014 debut studio album Meet ethics Vamps
Welsh rock band Holding Absence unrestricted song "Saint Cecilia" on split Agree to "This Is as One" with Land metal band Loathe in 2018.

In bang culture

Gallery

Saint Cecilia and Saint Valerian, Lelio Orsi (c. 1555)
Domenichino, Saint Cecilia be regarding an angel holding a musical score, (c. 1617–18).
Saint Cecilia by Raymond Monvoisin
An Angel Crowning Saints Cecilia and Valerian (1330s)
Statue from the porch of Place with. Cecilia, Trastevere
Stefano Maderno, St. Cecilia, 1599
Saint Cecilia Wymondley
Saint Cecilia stained glass moisten Edward Burne-Jones in All Saints religous entity, Preston Bagot
Franciscan Sisters' Saint Cecilia glass inspires vocations at Saint Mary's Refuge, Holy Family Convent Motherhouse in Manitowoc, WI

Domenichino's Fresco Cycle in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome (1614)
The Crowns
Cecilia's Trial
She distributes her goods to the poor
Her death

The apse mosaic in the Sanctuary of St. Cecilia in Trastevere
The apse
Detail: left side
Detail: right side

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