Who's Cecilia? What Is She?

Published: Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 18.3 (2015): 15-32.

Description: Considers the historicity of St. Cecilia, her association with music, and various accounts of her life and legend, including the "Passio Caeciliae," SNT, an opera by Licinio Refice and Emidio Mucci, John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day," Thomas Connolly's "Mourning into Joy," Raphael's "The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia with Sts. Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine, and Mary Magdalene," and other depictions of her as the "patron saint of music."

Chaucer Subjects: Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations