The anniversary is celebrated on this date due to the story of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music, who died on November 22, 230.
The music It is one of the most respected and practiced arts within Argentine culture. In that sense, since 1594each November 22 is celebrated on Music Dayalthough the anniversary has to do with a story distant in time.
And this celebration was inaugurated by Pope Gregory XIIIwho baptized Saint Ceciliathe central character of this anniversary, like the patron saint of all musicians. From this point onwards, millions of tributes began to be made, but why was Cecilia the inspiration for this anniversary?
The story behind Music Day
TO end of the second century after Christwhen the Catholic religion was not yet accepted in the Roman Empire, a devout young woman named Cecilia She was forced by her parents to marry another young man from the same patrician society: Valerian. Shortly after, after being respectively instructed and baptized by Pope Urban, the new husband adopted his wife’s religion.
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Once he converted, together with his brother Tiburciothey began to work in a prohibited manner in the burial of Christian corpses, which caused them to be arrested and forced to state that they only worshiped Jupiter. This never happened, and when they refused they were tortured and sentenced to death.
The same fate was for Cecilia: She was arrested and forced to renounce the religion of Christ. However, upon declaring that she preferred death rather than renouncing the true Faith, the young woman was even transferred to a hot oven so that the suffocation and gases could finish softening her. But this didn’t happen either. Despite martyrdom, Cecilia she sang praises to God and was sentenced to death. He November 22, 230the Roman mayor Almachius ordered his head to be cut off. And so it was.
But times changed, and The Catholic religion began to be tolerated after the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine I the Great in 313.. Finally, in 1594Pope Gregory XIII named Cecilia the patron saint of all musicians and tributes did not take long to appear. Since then, and in different ways, music day is celebrated every November 22.
Source: Ambito
