At 14.50 21/11/97, you wrote:
>* Cecilia, virgin and martyr (?)
>- of patrician birth, she converted her betrothed husband
>and his brother to Christianity; martyred by being
>suffocated with the steam of a hot bath in her own mansion
>(later converted into a church); perhaps martyred during
>reign of Septimus Severus (193-222); named in the canon of
>the Mass; at a translation of her remains in 1599, her body
>was seen to be complete and incorrupt (although in an
>earlier translation, her head had been enshrined
>separately); patron of music and musicians
Just one question; which are the relations of Cecilia with music and
musicians, or which is the cause for his becoming their patron saint?
Michele Bacci
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa (Italy)
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