Cecilia

Cecilia is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

Cecilia is derived from the feminine form of the old Roman gentile name Caecilius, Caecilia.

The name day is November 22, according to Cecilia of Rome, Roman virgin and martyr in the 3rd century, patroness of church music.

Caecilia Metella, daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, known by her tomb on the Via Appia Antica
Cecilia of Rome, martyr and saint
Cecilia Bleeker, first honorary citizen in Schleswig -Holstein, see also: Cecilia - Bleeker Park
Cecilia von Brandenburg ( * ca 1405, † 1449 ), by marriage Duchess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel
Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611-1644), Queen of Poland
Cecilia Hansmann (1908-1984), German resistance fighter and member of parliament in NRW
Cecilie Leganger ( b. 1975 ), Norwegian Women's Handball
Cecilie of Mecklenburg -Schwerin (1886-1954), last German Crown Princess
Cecilie of Prussia (1917-1975), the youngest child of Crown Prince Wilhelm
Cecilia of Sweden ( Cecilia of Oldenburg, 1807-1844 ), Princess of Sweden

" Ode to St. Cecilia " by Henry Purcell, 1692
Ode for St. Cecilia 's Day by George Frideric Handel (HWV 76), 1739
Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae Cellensis (falsely " Cäcilienmesse " ) by Joseph Haydn
Messe en l' honneur solennelle de Sainte -Cécile ( " Cäcilienmesse " ) by Charles François Gounod, first performance in Paris in 1855
Richard Strauss set to music in 1894, the poem " Cecilia " by Henry Hart.
" Hymn to St. Cecilia " is a piece for choir a cappella by Benjamin Britten after a poem by WH Auden from the year 1942.
Bill Ramsey sang in 1959 a German pop, the " Cecilia " was and is about a flirtatious female figure of the same name.
" Cecilia " is also the name of a song by Simon and Garfunkel ( album Bridge over Troubled Water ( 1970) ). As a single, it climbed to number 4 in the U.S. charts. The poetry begins with " Celia, you're breaking my heart / You're shaking my confidence daily ... " The piece was censored in Malawi because " Cecilia " ( Cecilia Tamanda Kadzamira ) the name of the wife of the president Hastings Banda is.
The group Ace of Base sang also in line with the piece of Simon and Garfunkel an extended version of " Cecilia ". The chorus includes: " Cecilia, walk in the light / Cecilia, you're gonna live forever / According to a well known song / Cecilia, walk in the light / Cecilia, did you come home / And to splat? "
" On the feast of St. Cecilia " by Fanny Hensel ( 1833) for SATB ( mixed) and Piano, Furore -Verlag.

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