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A close-up of the tomb of St. Ceclia at the basilica dedicated to her in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. \/ Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Vatican City, Nov 22, 2025 \/ 04:00 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

St. Cecilia, widely known as the patron saint of music and musicians, is buried in the Basilica of St. Cecilia in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere where a famous Baroque sculpture of her still puzzles scholars.<\/p>\n

According to popular belief, Cecilia was a Roman noblewoman who lived in the third century. Despite being forced by her family to marry, she remained a virgin, as she had vowed to do as a young girl. <\/p>\n

Her pagan husband, Valerian, converted to Christianity after their marriage, and Valerian\u2019s brother, Tiburtius, was also baptized a Christian. Both men were martyred. St. Cecilia, too, would later be tortured and martyred. It is said she took three days to die after the executioner hit her three times on the neck with a sword.<\/p>\n

The Basilica of St. Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, Italy. St. Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and poets because of this sentiment and her alleged singing within the oven during her martyrdom. Her fortitude may inspire the modern Catholic in the trials of life and inspire one to find God within music. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After her martyrdom, St. Cecilia was buried in the Catacomb of St. Callixtus. The underground burial place of early Christians was created around the turn of the first century A.D. by Callixtus, a deacon who later became pope.<\/p>\n

Located under the Appian Way, an ancient Roman road connecting the city to southeast Italy, the Catacomb of St. Callixtus once held the bodies of more than 50 martyrs, including St. Cecilia, and popes from the second to the fourth centuries.<\/p>\n

The Basilica of St. Cecilia is a fifth-century church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere neighborhood. It is dedicated to the Roman martyr St. Cecilia (early third century A.D.) and serves as the conventual church for the adjacent abbey of Benedictine nuns. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the end of Christian persecution, the relics of the Christians buried in the city\u2019s many catacombs were moved to churches for veneration. St. Cecilia\u2019s remains were transferred in the early 800s to a church built on the ruins of her former home.<\/p>\n

It is said that hundreds of years later, during a restoration of the church in 1599, her tomb was opened, revealing her body to be, miraculously, incorrupt. Artist Stefano Maderno was commissioned to create a marble sculpture of the saint.<\/p>\n

The main altar and crypt in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere. The church was built on the site of the house where the saint lived. St. Cecilia is known for \u201csinging in her heart to the Lord\u201d on her wedding day, despite her consecration to God. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sources disagree about whether the Baroque artwork, still on display today at Cecilia\u2019s tomb in the Basilica of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, is a depiction of how the saint\u2019s body was found in 1599 or an invention of Maderno. Either way, the sculpture \u2014 which depicts Cecilia lying on her right side, her hands tied, her face turned toward the ground, and the wound of her martyrdom visible upon her neck \u2014 is considered a masterpiece.<\/p>\n

A close-up of the statue at the tomb of St. Cecilia at the church dedicated to her in Rome, Italy. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are several widely-told legends about St. Cecilia and her husband. One of the oft-repeated beliefs, dating to the fifth century, is that she sang to God \u201cin her heart\u201d as musicians played at her wedding feast.<\/p>\n

A statue in the Basilica of St. Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, Italy. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This story about the saint comes from a Latin antiphon, but there is a competing interpretation, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cCantantibus organis, Caecilia virgo in corde suo soli Domino decantabat dicens: fiat Domine cor meum et corpus meum immaculatum ut non confundar,\u201d the Latin antiphon says. In English it means: \u201cWhile the instruments played, the virgin Cecilia sang in her heart to the Lord alone, saying, \u2018Let my heart and my body be made pure, that I may not be confounded.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

An altar at the Basilica of St. Cecilia in Rome, Italy. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another version of the antiphon gives a slightly different opening word, \u201ccandentibus,\u201d instead of \u201ccantantibus,\u201d which would change the translation from musical instruments playing to \u201cglowing\u201d instruments of torture.<\/p>\n

An icon of St. Cecilia in the church dedicated to her in Trastevere in Rome Italy. According to the cultural custom of the time, Cecilia\u2019s family betrothed her to a pagan nobleman named Valerian despite St. Cecilia\u2019s consecration to God. On their wedding night, Cecilia told Valerian that she had sworn to remain a virgin before God and that an angel guarded her body, protecting her virginity from violation. She told Valerian that he would be able to see this angel if he went to the third milestone along the Via Appia and was baptized by Pope Urban I. Valerian went to the milestone as Cecilia had instructed and was baptized. She later converted his brother as well. Credit: Daniel Iba\u00f1ez\/CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scholars continue to disagree about which Latin version is the correct one and which may be a copy error. What is without dispute, however, is St. Cecilia\u2019s selfless example of faithfulness to God, even to the point of the sacrifice of her own life. <\/p>\n

St. Cecilia\u2019s feast day in the Church is celebrated Nov. 22.<\/p>\n

This story was first published on Nov. 22, 2024, and has been updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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