After one day and one night, the guards find Cecilia miraculously alive, wrapped in a celestial dew. Almachius then ordered her decapitation, but despite the ...

Nov 22, 2023 · Saint Cecilia died lying on her right side with her hands crossed in prayer. The position of her fingers—three extended on her right hand, and ...

Then Cecilia was arrested, and condemned to be suffocated in the baths. She was shut in for a night and a day, and the fires were heaped up, and made to glow ...

Nov 22, 2023 · Saint Cecilia died lying on her right side with her hands crossed in prayer. The position of her fingers—three extended on her right hand, and ...

At first, the executioners tried to kill her in scorching-hot baths, but St. Cecilia remained alive. Then they tried to kill her with a sword, but the ...

Apr 16, 2016 · The traditional legend about Saint Cecilia's death says that after being struck three times on the neck with a sword, she lived for three days.

Her death was to be conducted by locking her in the bathhouse, and lighting the fires until she suffocated. The fires raged on and on, but after a full day and ...

St. Cecilia died a martyr's death and was tortured and executed due to the fact that she refused to denounce her faith. She was laid to rest in the Catacomb ...

The executioner struck her three times but was unable to decapitate her so he left her bleeding and she lived for three days. Crowds came to her and collected ...