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CTyankee

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14. That is a great idea! This saint is everlasting in our culture. Not only with Paul Simon's "Cecilia"

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #13)

Tue Jun 13, 2023, 08:16 AM

Jun 2023

but also one of our newest artists Kehinde Wiley who has done an outstanding portrait of Cecilia (you'll recall that his was the marvelous painting of President Obama surrounded by flowers, now in the National Portrait Gallery).

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Use of "sprang up." [View all] CTyankee Jun 2023 OP

Yes riverbendviewgal Jun 2023 #1

Organized? UpInArms Jun 2023 #2

Sprang up is appropriate. FalloutShelter Jun 2023 #3

Sprang Timewas Jun 2023 #4

A little research did not reveal how or why the cult appeared/sprang up. I prefer the more active CTyankee Jun 2023 #6

"arose" for the sound before the sound Rome in the sentence sanatanadharma Jun 2023 #5

"Sprang up" implies suddenness, and sounds too modern to me royable Jun 2023 #7

Well, nobody seems to know (according to my research). CTyankee Jun 2023 #8

And listen to " Hymn to St Cecilia," a choral piece by Benjamin Britten royable Jun 2023 #9

I actually did listen to it a couple of months ago when I was pondering the St. Cecilia chapter of CTyankee Jun 2023 #16

I'll take ".... came into being in Rome around the time of the Church's founding." sinkingfeeling Jun 2023 #10

Which church? RainCaster Jun 2023 #11

I'm pretty sure that readers understand it to be Roman Catholic, given the information I supply. CTyankee Jun 2023 #12

It wouldn't hurt to spell it out RainCaster Jun 2023 #13

That is a great idea! This saint is everlasting in our culture. Not only with Paul Simon's "Cecilia" CTyankee Jun 2023 #14

Manifested pscot Jun 2023 #15

'Despite her Roman origins, the musicians' cult of St. Cecilia spread from Northern Europe to Italy Donkees Aug 2023 #17