ST. CECILIA – November 22
DVRodriguez2020-11-09T14:10:41-05:00St. Cecilia, patroness of music, is a virgin martyr ‘immortalized’ in the Roman Canon. From the Roman Breviary Cecilia, a Roman virgin of noble birth, vowed her virginity to God at a very early age. Unwillingly given in marriage to Valerian, she persuaded him to leave her untouched and go to blessed Urban, the Pope, that when he had been baptized he might be worthy to see Cecilla's angelic protector. When Valerian had obtained this favor, he converted his brother Tiburtius to Christ, and a little later both were martyred under the prefect Almachius. But Cecilia was seized by the same [...]