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  2. Saint Cecilia - Wikipedia

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    Sacred music, organ builders, luthiers, singers, musicians, poets, Archdiocese of Omaha, Albi, France, Mar del Plata, Argentina Saint Cecilia ( Latin : Sancta Caecilia ), also spelled Cecelia , was a Roman Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Catholic , Orthodox , Anglican , and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. [ 2 ]

  3. Portal:Catholic Church/Patron Archive/November 22 - Wikipedia

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    Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia "sang in her heart ...

  4. List of Catholic musicians - Wikipedia

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    List of Catholic Church musicians is a list of people who perform or compose Catholic music, a branch of Christian music.Names should be limited to those whose Catholicism affected their music and should preferably only include those musicians whose works have been performed liturgically in a Catholic service, or who perform specifically in a Catholic religious context.

  5. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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    Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz; Ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel

  6. Hymn to St Cecilia - Wikipedia

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    Firstly, he was born on St Cecilia's day; secondly, St Cecilia is the patron saint of music; and finally, there is a long tradition in England of writing odes and songs to St Cecilia. The most famous of these are by John Dryden ("A song for St. Cecilia's Day" 1687) and musical works by Henry Purcell , Hubert Parry , and George Frideric Handel .

  7. Genesius of Rome - Wikipedia

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    The British Catholic Stage Guild regards him as their patron saint, and the Shrine of St. Genesius in Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in the New York City Borough of Manhattan, serves as a spiritual landmark for the city's acting community. As the patron saint of epilepsy, many thus afflicted turn to

  8. The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia - Wikipedia

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    The Saint Cecilia Altarpiece is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael.Completed in his later years, in around 1516–1517, the painting depicts Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians and Church music, listening to a choir of angels in the company of Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene.

  9. Category:Patrons of music - Wikipedia

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    Music Academy of the West founders (8 P) * Patrons of Joseph Haydn (10 P) Patrons of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (9 P) A. American patrons of music (20 P)