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Great answer, but the part about St Cecilia features on the reverse of the current £20 note in England, accompanied by composer Sir Edward Elgar is now wrong as the current £20 note does not now show any saints.
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St Cecilia become a saint when a solider struck her head 3 times she did not die yet. Though she can live for 3 days. I that 3 days she become very rich.On the last day of her human life she gave all her money to the poor.
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Cecilia had been condemned to die because she was a Christian. First they tried to suffocate her by leaving her in a sauna. That did not work so a soldier tried to cut off her head three times - the maximum allowed by Roman law. Although seriously wounded, she lay three days before she died. During this time she made arrangements for her wealth to go to the Church to help the poor.
Cecilia earned her sainthood by dying for her faith.
An interesting fact or two: Her tomb was opened about the year 890 to move her to a new resting place. Her body looked as fresh as the day she died. In the 1590s her tomb was again opened and the body was still uncorrupted. It has not been opened since.
When the body of a holy person is found still intact long after it should have decayed, it is frequently taken as a sign of sanctity.
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
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Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
St. Cecilia refused to deny her Catholic faith and was condemned to die. She was a martyr for her faith and that is nearly an automatic way to obtain sainthood. There was no formal process for canonization when she was killed so would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation soon after she died.
Additional Information:
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
I hope this may help... I got this from Christi@n on Yahoo answers.
no miracles , just martyrium
Saint Cecilia in the Catholic Church is the patron saint of musicians and of the blind. Her feast day, celebrated both in the Catholic and Orthodox Church, is November 22. It was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and other friends whom she had converted, suffered martyrdom, C. 230, under the emperor Alexander Severus.
The researches of de Rossi, however (Rom. sott. ii. 147), go to confirm the statement of Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she perished in Sicily under Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180. A church in her honor exists in Rome from about the 5th century, and was rebuilt with much splendour by Pope Paschal I around the year 820, and again by Cardinal Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in Trastevere, near the Ripa Grande quay, where in earlier days the Ghetto was located, and gives a title to a Cardinal Priest.
Cecilia, whose musical fame rests on a passing notice in her legend that she praised God by instrumental as well as vocal music, has inspired many a masterpiece in art, including the The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia by Raphael at Bologna, the Rubens in Berlin, the Domenichino in Paris and at San Luigi dei Francesi, and works by Artemisia Gentileschi, and in literature, where she is commemorated especially by Chaucer's Seconde Nonnes Tale, and by John Dryden's famous ode, set to music by Handel in 1736, and later by Sir Hubert Parry (1889). Other music dedicated to Cecilia includes Benjamin Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia, A Hymn for St Cecilia by Herbert Howells, a mass by Alessandro Scarlatti, Charles Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile, and Hail, bright Cecilia! by Henry Purcell. "Sankta Cecilia" is also the title of a 1984 Swedish hit song sung by Lotta Pedersen and Göran Folkestad at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984.
St Cecilia features on the reverse of the current £20 note in England, accompanied by composer Sir Edward Elgar.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_St._Cecilia_become_a_saint#ixzz1lED6D5ie
St Cecilia become a saint when a solider struck her head 3 times she did not die yet. Though she can live for 3 days. I that 3 days she become very rich.On the last day of her human life she gave all her money to the poor.
Let me try to improve on that answer.
Cecilia had been condemned to die because she was a Christian. First they tried to suffocate her by leaving her in a sauna. That did not work so a soldier tried to cut off her head three times - the maximum allowed by Roman law. Although seriously wounded, she lay three days before she died. During this time she made arrangements for her wealth to go to the Church to help the poor.
Cecilia earned her sainthood by dying for her faith.
An interesting fact or two: Her tomb was opened about the year 890 to move her to a new resting place. Her body looked as fresh as the day she died. In the 1590s her tomb was again opened and the body was still uncorrupted. It has not been opened since.
When the body of a holy person is found still intact long after it should have decayed, it is frequently taken as a sign of sanctity.
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
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Romans tried to kill her because she believed in God and pray to him, but when they tried to cut of her head they couldn't because God was protecting her.So after the execution she stayed alive for 3 more days. She was very rich so in those 3 days she gave all her money to poor people.Additional Information:
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
St. Cecilia refused to deny her Catholic faith and was condemned to die. She was a martyr for her faith and that is nearly an automatic way to obtain sainthood. There was no formal process for canonization when she was killed so would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation soon after she died.
Additional Information:
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
Saint Cecilia was an early Chrisitan who died for her faith as a martyr. She would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation. Martyrs were always considered automatic saints. There was no offical canonization process in place at the time.
In the primitive Church, martyrs were immediately recognized as witnessing to the perfection of Christian life on earth, having shown the ultimate proof of their love for Christ by the offering of their lives. By the sacrifice of their lives for Christ, they attained Heaven in eternal glory and were indissolubly united to the Lord, the Head of the Mystical Body.
I hope this may help... I got this from Christi@n on Yahoo answers.
no miracles , just martyrium
Saint Cecilia in the Catholic Church is the patron saint of musicians and of the blind. Her feast day, celebrated both in the Catholic and Orthodox Church, is November 22. It was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and other friends whom she had converted, suffered martyrdom, C. 230, under the emperor Alexander Severus.
The researches of de Rossi, however (Rom. sott. ii. 147), go to confirm the statement of Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she perished in Sicily under Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180. A church in her honor exists in Rome from about the 5th century, and was rebuilt with much splendour by Pope Paschal I around the year 820, and again by Cardinal Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in Trastevere, near the Ripa Grande quay, where in earlier days the Ghetto was located, and gives a title to a Cardinal Priest.
Cecilia, whose musical fame rests on a passing notice in her legend that she praised God by instrumental as well as vocal music, has inspired many a masterpiece in art, including the The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia by Raphael at Bologna, the Rubens in Berlin, the Domenichino in Paris and at San Luigi dei Francesi, and works by Artemisia Gentileschi, and in literature, where she is commemorated especially by Chaucer's Seconde Nonnes Tale, and by John Dryden's famous ode, set to music by Handel in 1736, and later by Sir Hubert Parry (1889). Other music dedicated to Cecilia includes Benjamin Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia, A Hymn for St Cecilia by Herbert Howells, a mass by Alessandro Scarlatti, Charles Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile, and Hail, bright Cecilia! by Henry Purcell. "Sankta Cecilia" is also the title of a 1984 Swedish hit song sung by Lotta Pedersen and Göran Folkestad at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984.
St Cecilia features on the reverse of the current £20 note in England, accompanied by composer Sir Edward Elgar.
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