Narrator: (Cecilia, praying) There was a woman who valued her chastity so much that she vowed to remain virgin forever. One day, she met a young man named Valerian (Cecilia and Valerian are speaking) and he asked her to marry him.
Valerian: Dear Cecilia, your beauty has slapped me like an angry woman but this time the woman is not angry but admiring to how hard she slapped the man who loved her. Cecilia, oh dear Cecilia, will you thy marry me?
Narrator: (Cecilia & Valerian, married) Cecilia married Valerian and she prayed to God to keep her chaste and on her wedding night, she told her husband that she have a guardian angel.
Cecilia: Valerian, I have an angel that loves and protects me and I shall be a virgin no matter what and if you violated me, thy angel will slay you.
Valerian: (scoffs) where is thy angel, Cecilia? Show me and I will believe you.
Cecilia: If thee love me, thou shall see the Holy Urban in Via Appia and be baptized by himself and you will see what I am talking about.
Valerian: Then I must go. If this is all a lie and you are only saying this because of another man, I will slay both of you. I must thy see the truth. Goodbye, love.
Narrator: Valerian went to Via Appia to see the man Cecilia was talking about.
Valerian: (approach Urban) You must be Urban, the old man Cecilia was talking about.
Urban: Ah. Cecilia. She still is a good woman. What do you want young man?
Valerian: I want to see the angel Cecilia was talking about. Baptize me, Urban.
Narrator: Urban baptized Valerian and when he was purged to his sin, he went back to Cecilia and when he entered the room, he saw an angel beside Cecilia holding a crown of lilies and a crown of roses.
Angel: These crowns came from thy heaven and only those who hate evil and are chaste will see only it but to all eyes of evil doers’ can only smell the scent. (Give the crowns to Cecilia & Valerian) Valerian, I have but one gift to give you for you had agreed to be a pure Christian and I will grant whatever wish you want.
Valerian: Dear angel, please let my brother, Tibertius know and see the Truth.
Angel: Then I may grant it.
Narrator: The angel summoned Tibertius and as soon as he entered the house he recognized the scent and was curious.
Tibertius: Where do thee scent came from? Where are the lilies and roses? Valerian, what is happening?
Valerian: Brother, please listen to my wife and follow her.
Narrator: Cecilia explained the Truth to Tibertius but he objected as soon as she said to stop worshipping idols.
Tibertius: I shall not!
Cecilia: Please listen to me carefully.
Narrator: So Cecilia explained some more until Tibertius was sure.
Tibertius: Then may it happen.
Narrator: Then Tibertius went to Via Appia and asked Urban to baptize him. When Almachius heard about these, he called for them and executed both of them. One of the sergeants, Maximus, claimed he saw their spirits ascending to heaven during their execution, and he was beaten to death. Cecilia buried Valerian and Tibertius and was therefore summoned by Almachius.
Almachius: I believe you are one of them. It would be a shame if I let them execute you, you are a pretty one so I cannot let you die but worship thy idol, Pluto, and you will be free.
Cecilia: I shall never worship any gods but Him. You will never thy changed me for I will always be a Christian.
Narrator: This maddened Almachius so he locked Cecilia in a bath with fire underneath but she, being left all day and night, did not even burn or break sweat. Almachius got furious and sent his servant to slay her in the bath. Though he struck her three strokes in the neck, he could not decapitate her and so he left her lying half-dead. The Christians stopped the blood with sheets and although she lay there for three days in agony, she still continued to teach Christian faith and she even gave them her property and things and after three days, she died was buried by Pope Urban and declared her as saint and consecrated her church, still worshipped to this day as the church of St. Cecilia.

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