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Speaker 0 00:00:00 I remember at Priscilla and the name of the father and the son of Holy spirit. Amen. The feast of Saint Cecilia, patroness of musicians. She's a, a noble woman from Raul. Uh, Catholic bought the, in the third century. I believe she's martyred about year two 30, but uh, her parents against her will engaged her to a young man named Polaria in a pagan pagan nobleman. And, uh, and she was forced to go to the marriage, redaction America. She said, uh, uh, I have an angel that protects me. So, uh, I've I bobbed my virginity as a child. I have an Andrews that protects me and he will protect me. He, he said, well, you know, how do I know this is true. Basically want to know about the angels. She told him, well, if he became a Catholic and was baptized, he too would be able to see the angel.
Speaker 0 00:00:54 And so he agreed to do that. And she sent him down to Pope urban. It was a, during a persecution. So urban is you had to go outside the city, I think third mile Mark or whatever. They had some past work and visits with the pulp and the Popa ends up baptizing him and sends it back. And he sees this glorious angel, their guardian, yeah. Is why. And so he tells his brother type Burt's yes, pagan brother and type Burt's is, wants to see the angina, what snowballed all that. So he gets instructed in the faith and baptized too. He can see the angel, they both get martyred, um, and their, their face days on April 14th, same as Justin martyr. There's a commemoration of valerian and <inaudible>, so they're both modern. She gives away all the goods and then she's hauled into the prefect of the city to their Rome, wants to know where's all the wealth w well, she gave it away.
Speaker 0 00:01:46 And so he decides that he'll have her killed in her own house, in the bath, just by heating up and basically cooking her to death. So they tried that and it didn't, it didn't have the effect on her. So they sent an executioner and the law at that time, I guess, cause you get three strikes, chop off the head, but the guy was so nervous, like cutting off the head of this beautiful noble woman. Then he just kind of, feebly hit her three times in the neck and caused these three bad wounds and it took her three days to die. And when she, when she was dead, I think one of her hands, I don't remember which one is which, but has one finger sticking out. She's, she's laying on her side looking down and we know why I'll tell you in a minute, but, uh, but she has three or three fingers on one hand, stand across with three persons and, uh, father, son, the Holy ghost and the other finger on the other hand, standing for one God and the face of these pagans at any rate, uh, she's buried in the catacombs and in the eight hundreds, I think eight 77 or so one of the pulps, they uncovered her tomb and she's, incorrupt, they're laying there like that.
Speaker 0 00:02:47 So they built a Basilica and it's trust ever in part a part of Rome and she's in the office. Sure. And then the 15 hundreds of 1599, they were doing some work on the church and, and for whatever reason it was her tomb was opened up and she's still incorrect. Yeah. So there's that they got the best stuff, so they could get to, to make a sculpture of it. They also found out that she's wearing gold cloth under the thing, which is interesting shows. So she's a, and she has a hair shirt on, I think. So she's wearing a penitential garment under all that, that it hadn't hadn't decay. And so it was open for quite a while. There were people, people, all kinds of people in Rome came to see st. Cecilia, a famous sculpture made of her and said, if you see that spelt, that alabaster sculpture, that's a, that it's actually sleep from actually looking at her. So it's not a work of art in the sense of like the guy thinking of it. He actually looking at her in sculpture after, after that fashion. So what she actually looks like anyway, so she's been an encourage. Uh, it was all these beautiful, uh, oral smells and all that coming out of the tomb at the same time to him out of the altar, she was in corrupt at that time for 1300 years, roughly give or take. So that's just a little bit about st. SISU Saint of today.
