Transcript
Narrator (0:02)
You're listening to a podcast on Catholic saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an apostolate helping Catholics understand, live and share their faith.
Tim Gray (0:21)
Welcome to form. Now, I'm Tim Gray, president of the August Institute. And joining me is a special guest and a colleague of mine here at the August Institute, Paul McCusker, who is a well known author, best selling author and the creative director of a lot of our content production here at the August Institute. And so, Paul, this is a joy to talk with you about St. Cecilia. You know, we've done a special audio drama that we're going to talk about on St. Cecilia. So she has a very special place in our heart. But St. Cecilia, her feast day this year kind of got eclipsed. It fell on a Sunday on 22nd November. And so we, a lot of people, you know, missed that feast day. So today we want to talk about St. Cecilia so we don't forget her. And of course she's known as, you know, saints have the, a lot of saints are the patrons of certain things. You know, they're kind of the, they're known for, you know, St. Anthony's the patron for finding lost objects. You pray for him for that. And St. Cecilia, she's a wonderful patroness. Why don't you explain for everybody what she's the patroness of?
Paul McCusker (1:20)
Well, over the years she became our patroness of, well, the organ is how she's normally depicted as sitting at the organ, but then it expanded over the years as our patron of, well, music. Music and the arts, but mostly music.
Tim Gray (1:38)
So, you know, so many people love St. Cecilia, especially those who love music. You know, they love to name their children, you know, when they have a daughter. Cecilia. Cecilia. Because she's the patroness of singing, of music. And I think a lot of Catholic parishes need to pray for her, for their intercession for their choirs so that their choirs can improve. But she is, she's, you know, Catholic choirs love St. Cecilia. She's just this great patroness. And when we wanted to tell the story about this saint because she's a remarkable woman who, who unfortunately she's martyred by the Romans during the persecution of the Christians and she was a convert to Catholicism and she has this remarkable story. Why don't you just tell a little bit about her story for people?
Paul McCusker (2:28)
Well, it is remarkable. She was from a fairly upper middle class household near Rome and, and it was fairly typically pagan and all that, but she had become a Christian. And even up against her parents, there's.
Director/Producer (2:47)
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