Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Wednesday of The Second Week in Lent.
Station at Saint Cecilia's.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
Interior of Santa Cecilia-in-Trastevere, Rome.
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The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia,
by Stefano Maderno (1575 - 1636),
Church of Saint Cecilia, Rome.
One of the most famous examples of Baroque sculpture.
Photo: January 2005.
Source: Flickr.
Reviewer: Andre Engels.
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The Lenten Station is at the Sanctuary where the body of the illustrious Roman Virgin, Saint Cecilia, rests. It was there she lived and died a Martyr. In the 5th-Century A.D., this Church was mentioned as one of the most celebrated Parochial or Titular Churches of Rome. It is situated in Trastevere. It was customary to read, in this Church, the Gospel in which Jesus tells a woman it is necessary to drink His Chalice, if one is to participate in His Glory.
We read, at the Epistle, The Prayer of Mardochai, in favour of the Jewish people, whom the impious Aman had determined to destroy. He implored The Lord to turn their sadness into joy. The Christian people, in the same way, are mourning in their Lenten Penance and are looking forward to The Holy Paschal Joys. But, to deserve them, as the Gospel tells us, we must first drink The Chalice of The One Who came to shed His Blood to Redeem us, and Who will make us sharers in His Resurrection, if we die to our sins.
Let us abstain from the food which sustains our bodies, and from the vices which poison our Souls (Collect).
Mass: Ne derelínquas me.
Basilica di Santa Cecilia-in-Trastevere.
Photo: January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: MarkusMark.
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The Ciborium,
Church of Santa Cecilia-in-Trastevere,
Rome, Italy.
Attributed to Arnolfo di Cambio.
Photo: June 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: Ktulu.
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The Crypt Chapel of Santa Cecilia.
Photo: December 2006.
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Author: Claudiu Georgescu.
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The following Text is from Wikipedia.
The first Church on this site was founded probably in the 3rd-Century A.D., by Pope Urban I; it was devoted to the Roman Martyr, Cecilia, Martyred, it is said, under Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander.
By the Late-5th-Century A.D., at The Synod of 499 A.D. of Pope Symmachus, the Church is indicated with the Titulus Ceciliae. Tradition holds that the Church was built over the house of the Saint.
The Baptistry associated with this Church, together with the remains of a Roman house of The Early Empire, was found during excavations under the Chapel of The Relics. On 22 November, 545 A.D., Pope Vigilius was Celebrating the Saint in the Church, when the Emissary of Empress Theodora, Antemi Scribone, captured him.
Pope Paschal I rebuilt the Church in 822 A.D., and moved here the Relics of Saint Cecilia from the Catacombs of Saint Calixtus. More Restorations followed in the 18th-Century.
The Crypt of Santa Cecilia-in-Trastevere.
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Among the artefacts remaining, from the 13th-Century, are a mural painting, depicting The Final Judgement (1289-1293), by Pietro Cavallini, in The Choir of The Monks, and the Ciborium (1293) in the Presbytery, by Arnolfo di Cambio. The Gothic Ciborium is surrounded by four Marble Columns, White and Black, decorated with statuettes of Angels, Saints, Prophets, and Evangelists. The Apse has remains of 9th-Century A.D. mosaics, depicting The Redeemer with Saints Paul, Cecilia, Pope Paschal I, Peter, Valerian, and Agatha.
English: Interior of Santa Cecilia-in-Trastevere.
Looking towards the Organ Loft.
Italiano: Roma, Santa Cecilia-in-Trastevere:
Interno verso l'ingresso e coretti delle monache in luogo dell'organo.
Photo: December 2006.
User: Lalupa.
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The statue depicts the three axe strokes described in the 5th-Century A.D. account of her Martyrdom. It also is meant to underscore the incorruptibility of her body (an attribute of some Saints), which miraculously still had congealed blood, after Centuries.
The Crypt is also noteworthy, decorated in the Cosmatesque Style, containing the Relics of Saint Cecilia and her husband, Saint Valerian.
