The Romans tried to suffocate her in a sauna but after 3 days she was still alive. Next they tried to decapitate her but failed again after 3 sword blows, the legal limit. They left her in her home to bleed to death.
St. Cecilia was not canonized. She was proclaimed a saint by early Christians because of her martyrdom. The canonization process did not come into existence until the 12th century. In the primitive...
There was no formal canonization process when St. Cecelia became venerated as a saint soon after she died , around 230. Saint Cecilia was not canonized. She was proclaimed a saint by early Christians...
Cecilia was not canonized. She was proclaimed a saint by early Christians because of her martyrdom. At first, the Roman authorities tried to kill her by suffocation but after 3 days in a hot, steamy...