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Item Number: 1550

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Circa: 1920's
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Size: Plaque Measurements: Height - 12” Width - 9”
Manufacturer: Chicago

This is a rare antique plaster plaque in high relief. The picture features the beautiful Saint Cecilia (also known as 'The Holy Virgin') playing the organ (as she's famous for) looking up at three adorable angels who are visiting her. The closest angel is offering her a shower of roses. Nice details throughout. The plaque is in excellent original condition and retains the original gold finish. There are NO cracks or chips to the plaque. On the bottom edge of the plaque is the manufacturer’s name. It’s a little difficult to make out the first word, but the second word is, "Chicago". (see photo) Original hooks and wire hanger. Circa 1920’s.

*** I've included below a little information about the famous SAINT CECILIA:

"Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) is the patron saint of musicians and Church music. Cecilia was a young noblewoman of Rome. A devout Christian, she had pledged herself to chastity. Venerated in both East and West, she is one of the eight women commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.

Since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Cecilia is represented as playing the organ, evidently to express the idea that while musicians played at her wedding, she sang in her heart to God alone. When the Academy of Music was founded at Rome (1584) she was made patroness of the institute, whereupon her veneration as patroness of church music became more universal. The organ is now her most usual attribute."

- This article was cited from the following website: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Saint_Cecilia

*** I've also included below some extra information about SAINT CECILIA:

"Here follows of Saint Cecilia, virgin and martyr, and first of her name. Cecilia is as much to say as the lily of heaven, or a way to blind men. Or she is said of celo and lie, or else cecilia, as lacking blindness. Or she is said of celo, that is heaven, and legs, that is people. She was a heavenly lily by cleanness of virginity, a way to blind men by information of example, heaven by devout contemplation, lia by busy operation, lacking blindness by shining of wisdom, and heaven of the people. For the people beheld in her as in following the spiritual heaven, the sun, the moon, and the stars, that is to say, shining of wisdom, magnanimity of faith, and diversity of virtues. Or she is said a lily, for she had the whiteness of cleanness, a good conscience, and odour of good fame. Or she is said heaven, for Isidore says that the philosophers say that heaven is movable, round, and burning. In like wise was she moving by busy operation, round by perseverance, and burning by fiery charity.

Saint Cecilia, the holy virgin, was come of the noble lineage of the Romans, and from the time that she lay in her cradle she was fostered and nourished in the faith of Christ, and always bare in her breast the gospel hid, and never ceased day nor night from holy prayers, but recommended to God always her virginity.

However, her parents arranged for her to marry the noble Valerian. On the day of the wedding, she was clad in royal clothes of gold, but under she wore the hair. At the wedding celebration, while the musicians and singers performed music of a secular nature, her thoughts were only of God. Hearing the organs making melody, she sang in her heart, only to God, saying: "O Lord, I beseech thee that mine heart and body may be undefouled so that I be not confounded." Every second and third day she fasted, commending herself unto our Lord whom she dreaded."

- This article was cited from the following website: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/golden314.htm

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