A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 88
0. 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 Ro-man, who, with his wife,had secretly become Chris-tians. Cecilia was in child-hood remarkably seriousand pious. She early madea… … 70 LEGENDS AND STORIES sweet that angels came to listen to her. But the instruments em-ployed in secular music were insufficient to express the music ofher soul, and she invented the organ, and consecrated it to Godsservice. Her parents desired her, wlien sixteen years old, to marryValerian, a rich…
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