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Vie de sainte CécileCentury: 13
Hagiography
French
Dioc. Cambrai
INCIPIT
prol.: Haute chose est d'oïr et d'entendre et de retenir la seinte foi et la sainte loy Nostre Seignur -- Inc.: (...): Ceste damoisele sainte Cecile fu fille a .i. senat de Rome...
EXPLICIT
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Sex: M- Bio: -Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)
EDITING
Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français) ( BHL 1495) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
Life of S. Caecilia (+ 2nd-3th century).Biography of S. Caecilia (+ 2nd-3rd century). She was a young aristocratic Roman virgin who was forced into marriage with a member of another noble family. Despite her Christian roots, she was obliged to marry a pagan nobleman, Valerian. Caecilia made a secret promise to God to preserve her virginity. She managed to safeguard her commitment to god by fleeing her husband and friends on her wedding feast . During her wedding night Caecilia found comfort in her prayers and, according to legend, she heard heavenly hymns. Eventually Caecilia managed to convert her husband. Together they evangelized numerous pagans. Both, however, were persecuted by the Roman prefect Almachius. As punishment and death sentence Caecilia was placed in her own bathroom in a boiling bath. Miraculously she came out unscathed. Nevertheless Almachius put his way through and Caecilia was eventually killed by decapitation.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
London, British Library
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 407-408 (fragment)
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 223-228 (fragment)
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 223-228 (fragment)
LITERATURE
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1495
FOURNÉE (J.), 'Notes sur le culte de sainte Cécile en Normandie', Cahiers Léopold Delisle 44 (1995) 171-181
LUCKETT (R.), 'St. Cecilia and music', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 99 (1973) 15-30
LUCKETT (R.), 'St. Cecilia and music', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 99 (1973), 15-30
MCMASTER (H.), 'The legend of St Cecilia in Middle English literature', Dissertation Abstracts International - A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 31 (1970) 2350A
McMASTER (H.N.), The legend of St. Cecilia in Middle English literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, 31 (1970) 5, 23-50
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992)
REAMES (S.), 'The office for St. Cecilia', in: T.J. Heffernan, A. Matter (eds.), The Liturgy of the Medieval Church. Ed. Thomas J. HEFFERNAN and E. Ann MATTER. Pp. xviii, 778. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications. (Kalamazoo, Mich., 2001) 245-270
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 156-157
VOGÜÉ (A.), 'La Passion de sainte Cécile: ses rapports avec la Vie de saint Simon et la Règle du Maître', Studia monastica 40 (1998) 7-10
FOURNÉE (J.), 'Notes sur le culte de sainte Cécile en Normandie', Cahiers Léopold Delisle 44 (1995) 171-181
LUCKETT (R.), 'St. Cecilia and music', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 99 (1973) 15-30
LUCKETT (R.), 'St. Cecilia and music', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 99 (1973), 15-30
MCMASTER (H.), 'The legend of St Cecilia in Middle English literature', Dissertation Abstracts International - A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 31 (1970) 2350A
McMASTER (H.N.), The legend of St. Cecilia in Middle English literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, 31 (1970) 5, 23-50
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992)
REAMES (S.), 'The office for St. Cecilia', in: T.J. Heffernan, A. Matter (eds.), The Liturgy of the Medieval Church. Ed. Thomas J. HEFFERNAN and E. Ann MATTER. Pp. xviii, 778. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications. (Kalamazoo, Mich., 2001) 245-270
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 156-157
VOGÜÉ (A.), 'La Passion de sainte Cécile: ses rapports avec la Vie de saint Simon et la Règle du Maître', Studia monastica 40 (1998) 7-10
LINKS
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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer
Update:
2014-04-04 12:09:07
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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer
Update:
2014-04-04 12:09:07
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed July 6th 2025).
