Santa Cecilia

St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr by Cosimo Musio

Facts about St. Cecilia
1. Her body was guarded by an angel of God.
2. She converted her husband, brother-in-law and her executioner.
3. She was beheaded but lived for three more days instructing in the faith .
4. As she lay dying, her fingers signified The Blessed Trinity (three Persons in one God).
5. She died in 230 and in 1599, her body was found incorrupt.

Read more of her life here.

The popular patron saint of musicians is one of the best loved and venerated martyrs of Rome, because of her own free will she gave up her life to defend the Christian faith.

Her statue found in Rome at the Catacombs of Saint Calixtus and known as The Crypt of St. Cecilia, was sculpted in 1599 by Stefano Maderno. It reminds us of her martyrdom and, by the position of her fingers, according to tradition, she expresses her devotion to the Unity and the Trinity of God. (Taken from Le Catacombe di San Callisto)