Saint Cecilia

Saint Cecilia was a Christian Martyr. She was a young woman who loved God. She was said to be a noble women of Rome, but with her husband Valerian, and his brother suffering martyrdom, under the emperor Alexander Severus it was a very hard life for them.  Since she was a Christian, it was against the law, so she was sentenced to death. Because of her strong belief is God the romans couldn't take it right away they decided to kill her.  At first they tried to suffocate her in a sauna but it did not work. The second thing the romans tried to do was chop her head off. They kept trying and trying but it never worked, only a scratch was left on her neck, and while all this was happening she was singing to God, because she knew that he was going to protect her. After the execution she stayed alive for three more days living in a cell.  She was so very rich that the day before she died she gave all of her money to the poor and to the church. She is now a Saint in Heaven.

I learned that Christian martyrs were very happy to be Christian, but most people did not like the idea of Christianity and believing in God. Because of that most of the Christian martyrs were killed, just like Saint Cecilia and Saint Kateria Tekawitha. Some similarities between both of the saints is that they were both Christian martyrs, they both died young, and they both had to pray to God secretly on their own.  Some of the differences between the saints are that saint Kateria Tekawitha was a First Nation, saint Cecilia was Roman Catholic, and saint Kateria Tekawitha was beatified by Blessed Pope John Paul the second.  Some of the remarkable things about Saint Cecilia are that she was given a guardian angel from God which was protecting her as she was being killed, which only gave her a scratch on her neck. Some remarkable things about is that she survived smallpox when she was an orphan child, and she was beatified by Blessed Pope John Paul the second.

By: Cameron