SAINT
CELIA (THE SAINT OF MUSIC)
During a visit to Italy this year my elder daughter
and I visited the Catacombs. Due to the
Roman’s not allowing them to bury there dead in Rome itself they had found that
they could carve underground caves and line them with niches to lay there dead
in. They believed that they needed to
keep their bodies complete to enter Heaven.
The guide told us of how the four Popes that had
been buried there had been moved to the Vatican but the grave robbers had taken
the remaining bones of and sold these as relics, allowing people to believe
that they were from the Popes.
We were also shown the effigy of a young girl who
had been beheaded for her faith. She was
laying face down, for although she came from a prominent family she was placed
this way so that she would be obscure, like all other Christians, the finger on
one hand pointing down to denote the one God three on the other hand to
represent ‘the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost’. In their ‘wisdom’ the church decided not to
go along with this. She is now buried in
the Vatican and has been made the Saint of music.
