Life of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr
The English translation (Philadelphia, 1866) of Dom Guéranger’s Histoire de sainte Cécile et de la société romaine aux deux premiers siècles: Alexander Severus and the Church in Rome, the legend and martyrdom of Cecilia, Valerian and Tiburtius, the Acts and their testimonies, the finding of her body under Paschal I and again under Clement VIII, the Jansenist attack on the Acts and its refutation, and the later history of her basilica.