Nicola Circignani’s cycle of the early Christian martyrs (1582) in the ambulatory of the Jesuit church of San Stefano Rotondo was one of the most celebrated of the numerous martyrdom cycles in Rome during the last twenty years of the sixteenth century. It consisted of thirty-one frescoes each depicting a scene of horrendous martyrdom within the early Church<\/p>\n
The cycles were part of the Catholic response to the Protestant martyrologies such as John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments<\/p>\n
One of the main themes of the Pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585) was an Early Christian revival which took shape in Rome. Early Christendom was referred to as a Golden Age in the history of the Church. …<\/p>\n
… In the cycle (of saints), the figure of St Cecilia was one of the major scenes. She died about AD 230 with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Roman soldier Maximus. She was already a popular Roman saint.<\/p>\n
But it was only in 1594 that she was officially made the Patron Saint of Music – again by decree of Gregory XIII, a patronage which give a boost to her cult.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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