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    Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran...
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  • Saint Cecilia is an EP by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released as a free digital download on November 23, 2015. Initially intended as a sign...
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    Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly...
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  • Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence (Japanese: 白聖女と黒牧師, Hepburn: Shiro Seijo to Kuro Bokushi, lit. 'White Saint and Black Pastor') is a Japanese manga series...
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  • Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and church music in Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Saint Cecilia, St. Cecilia or Santa Cecilia may also...
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    The Saint Cecilia Altarpiece is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Completed in his later years, in around 1516–1517, the...
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    The Oratory of Saints Cecilia and Valeriano is a religious site in central Bologna, found on Via Zamboni, contiguous to the portico of the church of San...
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    month-long countdown clock on Foo Fighters' website revealed the free EP Saint Cecilia, including a single of the same name. Alongside its release, Grohl announced...
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    Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere rione, devoted to the Roman martyr Saint Cecilia (early 3rd century...
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  • "Saint Cecilia" is a single by American rock band Foo Fighters, from their EP Saint Cecilia. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
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    sculptor from the early 1600s best known for his statues of saints. St. Cecilia was the Roman saint of music who was executed for baptizing her fellow Romans...
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    Narrated by a nun who remains unnamed, it is a hagiography of the life of Saint Cecilia. The lack of portrait description for the second nun in the General...
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    of Saint Cecilia, where some of the most sacred memories of the place are preserved (including the crypt of the Popes, the crypt of Saint Cecilia, and...
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    development in the community." The organization was named after Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. Within a few months membership had grown from...
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    Acts of Saint Cecilia, a mid-fifth-century Acts of the Martyrs composition that has no historical value, Valerian was the husband of Saint Cecilia, Tiburtius...
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    Saint Cecilia's is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Brooklyn located at North Henry and Herbert streets, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York...
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  • 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. Annual celebrations of this saint's feast day (22 November) began in 1683...
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    Saint Cecilia is a 1627–1628 painting by Nicolas Poussin, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It shows saint Cecilia playing a keyboard instrument, possibly...
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  • equivalent is Silje. In Finnish, it is a derived from the name Cecilia (of Saint Cecilia). Silja Walter (1919–2011), Swiss author Silja Vöneky (born 1969)...
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    Music" (1697) is an ode by John Dryden. It was written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke set the original ode to music, but the score is...
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  • Maple, Ontario, Canada St Cecilia's Roman Catholic High School, a secondary school in Longridge, Lancashire, England Saint Cecilia's Church of England School...
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  • Not Just a Cutie (2022) Technoroid Overmind (2023) Oshi no Ko (2023) Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence (2023) Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (2024)...
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    dedicated to St Cecilia for a number of reasons. Firstly, he was born on St Cecilia's day; secondly, St Cecilia is the patron saint of music; and finally...
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    St. Cecilia Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha, USA. Located at 701 North 40th Street in the Gold Coast Historic...
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    EP with label mates Loathe, as well as releasing their fifth single "Saint Cecilia". This Is as One was released in March 2018, accompanied by a unique...
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    for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed...
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    and giving concerts. Between 1826 and 1829, he conducted the choir of Saint Cecilia which consisted of 400 amateur singers. In 1826, he conducted his father's...
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  • invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music...
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    Cecilia's Day (HWV 76) is a cantata composed by George Frideric Handel in 1739. The title of the cantata refers to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of...
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    served as president of the College of Saint Elizabeth. Raftery graduated in 1959 from the now defunct St. Cecilia High School in Kearny, where he starred...
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