Today the Church celebrates the life, and death, of Cecilia - one of the most revered martyrs of the Roman Church.
The only certainty about her is that some time in the second or third century, a woman called Cecilia allowed the Church to meet in her house in Trastevere in the city of Rome and that, subsequently, the church erected on that site bore her name.
Remembered as a brave woman who risked giving hospitality to the Christian Church when to do so was to court censure and possibly death.
According to a tradition that can be dated no earlier than the fifth century, she converted her pagan husband and his brother to the faith, both of whom were martyred before her.
She is said to have been martyred on this day in about the year 230. She is honoured as the patron saint of musicians.
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