Collection: St. Cecilia

ARTIST: Museum Religious Art Classics

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Artist: Abraham van Diepenbeeck – c. 1616 – 1675

Saint Cecilia is a saint venerated in the Latin Catholic, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, as well as some churches of the Anglican Communion. She is one of seven women, in addition to the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church.

Her feast day is November 22.