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Trastevere in Rome. Information
about the Church of S. Cecilia in Trastevere district
and information about the city centre of Rome
Church of S. Cecilia in Trastevere
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Piazza di Santa
Cecilia,
Trastevere
. Bus
to Viale
Trastevere.
Cavallini frescoes donation expected.
This pretty
church
stands on the site of a fifth-century building which
was founded over a Roman house, the bath and
store rooms of which can still be visited.
According
to legend, it was the home of Valerio, a Roman
patrician who was so impressed (if not frustrated) by
his Christian wife Cecilia's maintaining her
vow of chastity that he also converted.
Valerio
was martyred for his pains, and Cecilia was arrested
while attempting to bury his body.
Her martyrdom
was something of a botched job - following a failed
attempt to suffocate her in the hot steam baths of her
house, her persecutors tried to behead her with three
strokes of an axe (the maximum permitted).
She took
several days to die, which, according to one legend,
she spent singing.
In any
event, she became the patron saint of music.
In 1599
her tomb was opened, revealing her still- undecayed
body.
It rapidly
disintegrated, but not before a sketch had been made,
on which Stefano Maderna based the astonishingly delicate
sculpture which lies below the high altar.
Before
you leave, you have to see (they aren't always open)
the splendidly colorful thirteenth century frescoes
by Cavallini, high up in the gallery, all that
remains of a cycle which once covered the whole church.
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