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168 168 ST. CECILIA antique private bath existing in Home. The batb-room is now a cbapel in the cbnrcb of Santa Cecilia, in Trastevere, and here are still seen the metal pipes for bringing in the water, a leaden con- duit for letting it off, and the furnace underneath for heating the bath accord- ing to the method then in use. At her request, Pope Urban, it is siiid, dedicated the house as a church before her death. Around the original building a more stately church was erected by Pope Pascal I., when the bodies of SS. Cecilia, Valerian, and Tibertius were found in the cemetery now called by her name, and forming part of that of St. Calixtus. The body of St. Cecilia was wrapped in a cloth of gold, or, according to some accounts, a silken robe embroidered with gold, and had linen cloths at the feet, dipped in blood. In the same year the body of Urban was found in an old church near the Appian Way, and was translated to the church of St. Cecilia, which is still standing, but so modern- ized as to be deprived of much of its interest. Her name is in the Canon of the Mass, in the oldest Martyrologies attributed to St. Jerome, in the Breviary and Missal of the church of Milan (4th century), and the Sucramentary of Si, Gregory, Her legend is in every collection of Lives of the Saints. Her Acta are not authen- tic, nor is there any very old authority for the story that she was a musician. B,M. Butler, Lives, Baillet, Vies, Smith and Waoe, Did, Christian Biog, Mrs. Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art, Villegas. Leggendario delle Sante Ver- gini. Bede. Hemans, Monuments, St. Cecilia (2), May 31, M. at Ge- rona, in Spain. AA,SS, St Cecilia (3), M. 304. {See Vic- toria OF AVITINA.) St. Cecilia (4), June 1, M. with St. AUCEOA. St. Cecilia (5), May 8, M. at Con- stantinople with St. Acacius. {See Agatha (2).) AA,SS, St. Cecilia (6), June 2. One of 227 Boman martyrs commemorated together in the Mariyrology of St, Jerome, A A .SS, St. Cecilia (7), or Ceciria, July 8, M. at Sirminia, or Sirmia, in Pannonia. Mentioned in St. Jerome's Mariyrology, J. B. Seller, in AA.SS. St. Cecilia (8), M. in Sardinia. Patron of Cagliari. Cahier. St. Cecilia (10> companion of St. Ursula, honoured in Spain. St. Cecilia (lO), Gegoberga. SS. Cecilia (U) and Benedicta (13), Nov. 16. Abbesses of Swestrens. Bucelinus, from Trithemius. B. Cecilia (12), Aug. 4, ; with B. Diana, June 10. O.S.D. 1201-1290. First Dominican nun. Called the first plant of the Second Order, and the first- born of St. Dominic. When, in 1217, St. Dominic wont for the second time to Home, Honorius III., desiring that the Dominicans should have a house there, gave him the church of St. Sixtus, and had a convent built adjoining it. At this time there were many nuns living in Home, without ^'enclosure," and almost without regu- larity — some in small monasteries, and some in the houses of their families. Innocent III. (1198-1216) had made several unsuccessful attempts to assemble them all in one house, under a uniform rule of seclusion. His successor, Hono- rius III., instructed St. Dominic to bring about this reformation, and, at his re- quest, appointed three cardinals to act with him. In order to remove some of the difficulties, St. Dominic offered to give up his new convent of San Sisto to the nuns, and to build a new one for his friars at St. Sabina. The monastery of Sta. Maria, in Trastevere, was the prin- cipal one where the scandal had to be put down, and thither went the great preacher and his three colleagues, and exhorted the nuns with so much charity and eloquence that first the abbess and then all the nuns but one, volunteered to accept the stricter rule and obey the Pope. No sooner, however, had the ecclesiastics departed, than the parents and friends of the nuns came and re- monstrated, and told them they were doing that in haste which they would repent at lifelong leisure, that their house was so ancient and honourable, their conduct so irreproachable, their privi- leges so important, that they were by no means bound to accept new rules, which,