Saint Cecilia
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Table of Contents
I. Alexander Severus. His Education. Tendency to Christianity. Defects of Character
II. Dispositions of the Magistrates of the Empire With Regard to Christianity.
III. Martyrs Under Alexander Severus. Situation and Solicitude of Pope St. Urban. Progress of Christianity in Rome
IV. Saint Cecilia. Family of the Cecilii. The Appian Way in the Third Century
V. House in Which Cecilia Passed Her Youth. She Consecrates Her Virginity to God.
VI. Anxiety of Saint Cecilia at Her Approaching Union With Valerian. Celebration of the Marriage. Confidence Reposed in Valerian by Saint Cecilia
VII. Valerian Repairs to Pope Saint Urban. He Is Baptized. His Return. Arrival of Tiburtius
VIII. Interview of Tiburtius With St. Cecilia and Valerian. His Conversion and Baptism
IX. Alexander Severus Leaves Rome-Violence Exercised Against the Christians—Valerian and Tiburtius Are Summoned Before the Prefect of Rome—Interrogatory of Tiburtius
X. Interrogatory of Valerian. The Two Brothers Are Condemned to Death
XI. Conversion of Maximus, Notary of Almachias. Cecilia’s Interview With Her Husband and Brother. Martyrdom of Saints Valerian and Tiburtius
XII. Martyrdom of St. Maximus—Almachius Sends for Cecilia, and Urges Her to Sacrifice to the Idols—She Refuses and Converts the Envoys of the Prefect--The Virgin Appears Before the Tribunal of Almachius
XIII. Interrogatory of St. Cecilia
XIV. Martyrdom of St. Cecilia
XV. Martyrdom of St. Urban. Pontificate of St. Pontianus. Death of Alexander Severus
XVI. Zeal of the Romans Pontiffs in Collecting the Acts of the Martyrs.
XVII. Compilation of the Acts of Saint Cecilia, in the V. Century, in Their Present Form.
XVIII. Testimony of the Liturgies of the West in Favor of the Acts of St. Cecilia
XIX. The Appian Way From the Fourth Century to the Ninth
XX. Events Relating to St. Cecilia and Her Church Throughout the Seventh Century
XXI. Events Relating to Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.
XXII. Discovery of Cecilia’s Body by Pope St. Paschal
XXIII. Translation of the Bodies of Saints Cecilia, Valerian, Tiburtius, Maximus, Urban, and Lucius. St. Paschal’s Munificence Towards the Basilica of St. Cecilia
XXIV. Confirmation of the Acts of St. Cecilia by the Circumstances Attending the Discovery of Her Body.
XXV. Events Relating to Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Course of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
XXVI. Events Relating to Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Centuries.
XXVII. Events Relating to Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
XXVIII. Cardinal Paul Emilius Sfondrato. His Devotion to St. Cecilia. His Discovery of Her Body
XXIX. Sfondrato Acquaints Clement VIII., With the Discovery of Cecilia’s Body.
XXX. Sfondrato’s Preparations for the Translation of Cecilia’s Body.
XXXI. Translation of Cecilia’s Body by Clement VIII
XXXII. Confirmation of the Acts of St. Cecilia by the Circumstances Attending the Second Discovery of Her Body
XXXIII. Sfondrato Discovers the Body of St. Agnes.
XXXIV. Facts Relating to St. Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Seventeenth Century.
XXXV. Examination and Refutation of the Arguments of the Jansenists Against the Acts of St. Cecilia
XXXVI. Continuation of the Same Subject
XXXVII. Events Relating to Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Eighteenth Century
XXXVIII. Events Relating to St. Cecilia and Her Basilica Throughout the Nineteenth Century