The Church offers, in every age, in her Saints, Apostles, and
Martyrs, brilliant examples of virtue, zeal, and heroic courage.
While all are holy, there are still some, whose lives present
features, at once so touching and sublime, that time can detract
nothing from the interest which attaches to their names in every
Catholic heart. Pre-eminent among these, is St. Cecilia, the gentle
queen of Sacred Song, distinguished alike for her attachment to
holy Virginity, her apostolic zeal, and the unfaltering courage by
which she won the martyr's crown. The author has followed with
fidelity, the ancient Acts of St. Cecilia, the authenticity of
which the reader will find satisfactorily defended in his pages.
For less important details, he has claimed the right generally
accorded to historians, of receiving probable evidence, where
certain proofs cannot be ob. tained. On such authority, he has, for
example, assumed with the learned Bosio and others, that the
virtues of our Saint formed the crowning glory of the illustrious
family of Cecilia Metella. The recital does not terminate with the
death of Cecilia. The discoveries of her tomb, in the ninth and
sixteenth centuries, form not the least interesting portion of the
work. The description of the church which was once her dwelling,
and the witness of her sufferings and triumphs, brings those scenes
so vividly before us, that Cecilia seems to belong, as all the
Saints of God most truly do, as much to our own day, as to the
period when she still combated on earth. We will not speak of the
pleasure and instruction the author has afforded by his faithful
pictures of the celebrated Ways of Ancient Rome, and the sacred
cities of the dead, concealed in the holy shades beneath. For this,
and much other interesting information, we refer the reader to the
following pages, content, if, by our own humble labors, we have
contributed to the edification of our Catholic brethren, and to the
glory of Him who is admirable in His Saints.
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