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This extraordinary woman was a Catholic in a pagan world not long after Christ that couldn’t tolerate her faith. She has been greatly honored by Catholics over the centuries as a martyr and saint. Saint Cecilia is honored by the mass itself, which in the first eucharistic prayer asks us to share in fellowship with her and the 15 other saints especially named there.
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Fifteen hundred years after her death her body was found, showing the wounds told in the story about her death. Her body is incorrupt, that is, it has never decayed.
This story about her body is told shortly at http://thepapist.org/after-seeing-this-how-can-anyone-doubt/ 4
Her body is now in the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome. This fifth century church was built over the house where she had lived.
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