St Cecilia.
Circa 3rd C ~ Born in Rome and brought up as a Christian, Cecilia had a marriage arranged for her to Valerian, a young pagan man. She managed to make him respect her virginity and successfully converted him and his brother, Tiburtius. The two brothers were occupied in helping the sick and underprivileged as well as other charitable works around Rome. They were discovered burying bodies of martyred Christians and were arrested by the authorities. As they refused to honour the pagan gods, they were beheaded. Cecilia buried the brothers’ bodies and she was arrested for doing so and sentenced to death. An attempt to kill her by suffocation in her own home, failed, it is said by a miracle. The emperor ordered Cecilia to be beheaded, but the soldier sent to execute her, failed to kill her outright and she lay dying for three days before she died. Cecilia is the patron saint of music and musicians, singers and poets because when she was married she did not hear any of the wedding music as she said she sang in her heart to God alone.