A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 87
eived.April 30, A. D. 1380. St. Cecilia (Fr. SaintCecile). She is supposedto have lived in the thirdcentury, and the honor paidto her can be traced tothat time. She was thedaughter of a noble Ko-man, who, with his wife,had secretly become Chris-tians. Cecilia was in child-hood remarkably seriousand… … (Raphael.) St. GeoiUa. 70 LEGENDS AND STORIES sweet thai angels came to listen to her. But the instruments em-ployed in secular music were insufficient to express the music ■ ofher soul, and she in^ented the organ, and consecrated it to Godsservice. Her parents desired her, when sixteen years old,…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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