{"id":14754,"date":"2021-11-02T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=14754"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:12:10","slug":"la-seconde-nonne-64","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/the-second-nun-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterburry Tales: The Second Nun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14754\" class=\"elementor elementor-14754\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-89ba9b8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"89ba9b8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b619216\" data-id=\"b619216\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-588994a elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"588994a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Breton mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d67759f\" data-id=\"d67759f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80aa777 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"80aa777\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Contes_de_Canterbury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d6e4f18 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d6e4f18\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c129fa\" data-id=\"0c129fa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78bc72f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78bc72f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Geoffrey Chaucer is an English writer and poet who was born in London in the 1340s and died in 1400 in that same city. His most famous work is <i>Canterbury Tales<\/i>. The <i>Canterbury Tales<\/i> are, with <i>Sire Gauvain and the Green Knight<\/i> (from an anonymous person) and <i>Peter the Plowman<\/i> (by William Langland), the very first great works of English literature. Here is the first tale: the second nun.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"canterbury tales the second nun\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-99a1e45 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"99a1e45\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a2c6828\" data-id=\"a2c6828\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div 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>Canterburry Tales: The Tale of the Second Nun<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Contes-de-Canterburry-Le-conte-de-la-seconde-nonne\"><\/span>Canterburry Tales: The Tale of the Second Nun<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f780a70 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f780a70\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-52764b0\" data-id=\"52764b0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div 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class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">10<\/span> when he can see an idle man,<br \/>he knows how to catch him so quickly,<br \/>that as long as he is not gripped by the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/basque-mythology\/\">Basque<\/a>,<br \/>he does not realize that the demon has it in hand;<br \/>we should work well and fight idleness.<br \/><br \/>And although the man was not afraid of dying,<br \/>yet he sees very clearly, due,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>that idleness is rotten sluggishness,<br \/>from whom no good fruit comes out;<br \/>and see that laziness<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> keep on a leash<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">20<\/span> so that she can only sleep and eat and drink<br \/>and devour the labor of others.<br \/><br \/>And to keep us from such idleness,<br \/>which is the cause of so much confusion,<br \/>I give myself here as a faithful task,<br \/>following the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legend<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> to translate<br \/>your glorious life and passion,<br \/>you with the garland woven of roses and lilies;<br \/>I mean you, virgin and martyr Saint Cecilia.<\/p><\/div><div><i>Invocation to Mary.<\/i><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>And you who are the flower of all virgins,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">30<\/span> which pleased Bernard<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> write so well,<br \/>it is you that I first invoke at my beginning;<br \/>O our comfort, poor sinners, give me to write<br \/>the death of your servant, who won by her merit<br \/>eternal life and victory over the devil,<br \/>as we can read below in its history.<br \/><br \/>You virgin and mother, daughter of your son<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>you well of thanks, cure of the sinful soul,<br \/>in whom God, out of goodness, wanted to dwell,<br \/>you humble, and high above any creature,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">40<\/span> you have ennobled our nature to such an extent,<br \/>that the creator did not have contempt of our generation,<br \/>to clothe and wrap his son in blood and flesh.<br \/><br \/>Inside the cloister blessed with your flanks<br \/>received eternal love and peace in human form<br \/>which of the triple space<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> is king and guide,<br \/>that the earth and the sea and the sky never cease<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>to rent ; and you, spotless virgin,<br \/>you have given birth, and remain a pure virgin,<br \/>the creator of all creatures.<br \/><br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">50<\/span> In you are united the magnificence<br \/>and thank you, kindness and pity such<br \/>that you, who are the sun of excellence,<br \/>not only help those who pray to you,<br \/>but many times, in your blessing,<br \/>generously, before the man pleads for your help,<br \/>you warn him and make yourself the doctor of his life.<br \/><br \/>Now help, O sweet and blessed virgin kind,<br \/>I, poor exile in this desert of gall;<br \/>think of the Chanaan woman, who used to say<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">60<\/span> that little dogs eat crumbs<br \/>who fell from their masters table<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0;<br \/>and although, unworthy son of Eve<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>I am a sinner, yet accept my faith.<br \/><br \/>And since faith is dead without works,<br \/>to work, give me time and knowledge,<br \/>may I leave places which are so dark!<br \/>O you, who are so beautiful and full of grace,<br \/>be my lawyer in this high stay<br \/>where endlessly we sing &quot;Hosanna&quot;,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">70<\/span> you mother of Christ, dear daughter of Anne!<br \/><br \/>With your clarity illuminates my trapped soul,<br \/>who is troubled by the contagion<br \/>of my body and also by the weight<br \/>earthly desires and false affections;<br \/>oh harbor of refuge, oh hello<br \/>of those who are in pain and distress,<br \/>or help me, because I want to put myself in my work.<br \/><br \/>But please, you who read what I write<sup id=\"cite_ref-11\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>forgive me if i am not diligent<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">80<\/span> to write this story with art;<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>because I have both the words and the sentences<br \/>of the one who out of reverence for the saint<br \/>wrote history, and I am his legend,<br \/>and beg you to amend my work.<\/p><\/div><div><i>Interpretation of the name of C\u00e9cile proposed by brother Jacob de Voragine in the Golden Legend.<\/i><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>First of all I would like to explain the name to you<br \/>of Saint Cecilia, as we can read in her story;<br \/>he means in English &quot;hevenes lilie&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-12\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>for the pure chastity of her virginity;<br \/>or else, for what had the whiteness of honor,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">90<\/span> and the greenness of conscience, and of good renown<br \/>the sweet smell, &quot;lily&quot; was her name.<br \/><br \/>Or C\u00e9cile means &quot;the way of the blind&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-13\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>for she was an example by her good doctrine;<br \/>or C\u00e9cile, as in writing I find,<br \/>is formed, by a kind of assembly,<br \/>of &quot;sky&quot; and of Lia &quot;; and here, figuratively,<br \/>the &quot;sky&quot; is set for her thoughts of a saint,<br \/>and &quot;Lia&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> for its constant activity.<br \/><br \/>C\u00e9cile can also be explained in this way,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">100<\/span> &quot;Free from blindness&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-15\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> for its great light<br \/>of wisdom, and for its clear virtues;<br \/>or, here it is! the shining name of this virgin<br \/>comes from &quot;sky&quot; and &quot;leos&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-16\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> for what, quite rightly<br \/>we could call it &quot;the people&#039;s sky&quot;,<br \/>being the example of all good and wise works.<br \/><br \/>Because &quot;leos&quot; means &quot;peple&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-17\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> in English,<br \/>and just as we can see in the sky<br \/>the sun and the moon and the stars on all sides,<br \/>likewise, spiritually, in this generous virgin,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">110<\/span> could we see the magnanimity of faith,<br \/>and also the perfect clarity of wisdom,<br \/>and various works, brilliant of excellence.<br \/><br \/>And just as philosophers write<br \/>that the sky is swift and round and fiery<sup id=\"cite_ref-18\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>in the same way was this beautiful C\u00e9cile la blanche<br \/>very fast and active always in good works,<br \/>and round and perfect in good perseverance,<br \/>and ardent always in very brilliant charity;<br \/>or told you what his name was.<\/p><\/div><div><i>Explicit.<\/i><\/div><div><i>Here begins the tale of the Second Nun, on the life of Saint Cecilia.<\/i><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">120<\/span> This brilliant virgin Cecile, says her life,<br \/>was descended from the Romans, and of noble race,<br \/>and from the cradle raised in faith<br \/>of Christ, and carried his gospel in the spirit;<br \/>it never stopped, as in writing I find,<br \/>his prayer, and to love and fear God,<br \/>imploring her to keep her virginity.<br \/><br \/>And when this virgin owed a man<br \/>marry, who was very young in age,<br \/>and had name Val\u00e9rien,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">130<\/span> and that the day had come of her marriage,<br \/>she, very devout and humble in her heart,<br \/>under her golden dress which fit very nicely,<br \/>was against the flesh covered with a haire.<br \/><br \/>And while the organs made melody,<br \/>to God alone in her heart as she sang:<br \/>&quot;O Lord, keep my soul and my body too<br \/>spotless, lest I be lost \u201d,<br \/>and for the love of the One who died on the cross,<br \/>every two or three days she fasted,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">140<\/span> always praying in his prayers very ardently.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>Night came and to bed she had to go<br \/>with her husband, as is often the custom,<br \/>and privately she soon said to him:<br \/>&quot;O sweet dear beloved husband,<br \/>it&#039;s a secret, if you want to hear it,<br \/>that I would gladly tell you,<br \/>if you swear you won&#039;t betray me. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Val\u00e9rien swore firmly to him<br \/>that in any case, whatever happens,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">150<\/span> he would never betray her.<br \/>So to start she said to him:<br \/>&quot;I have an angel who loves me,<br \/>and who with great love, whether I sleep or sleep,<br \/>is always ready to keep my body.<br \/><br \/>And if he can smell (don&#039;t doubt it)<br \/>that you touch or love me for villainy,<br \/>immediately he will kill you in the act<br \/>and in your youth thus you will die;<br \/>and if you guide me in pure love,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">160<\/span> he will love you like me, for your purity,<br \/>and will show you its joy and its brilliance. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Val\u00e9rien, corrected as God wanted,<br \/>said: &quot;If you want me to trust you,<br \/>let me see this angel and contemplate him;<br \/>and if he&#039;s a true angel,<br \/>then I will do as you prayed to me;<br \/>but if you love another man in truth,<br \/>with that same sword I will kill you both. &quot;<br \/><br \/>C\u00e9cile immediately replied in this way:<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">170<\/span> &quot;It is up to you to see this angel:<br \/>believe in Christ and you baptize.<br \/>Go the Appian way (she does)<br \/>who from this town is only three miles away<sup id=\"cite_ref-19\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>and, to the poor people who live there,<br \/>talk to them just as will tell you.<\/p><\/div><p>\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"poem\"><p>Tell them that I, C\u00e9cile, sent you to them<br \/>so that they show you the good old Urban<sup id=\"cite_ref-20\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>for secret necessity and good intention.<br \/>And when you have seen Saint Urban,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">180<\/span> speak to him the words which I spoke to you;<br \/>and when he has purged you of sin,<br \/>then will you see this angel, before you go. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Val\u00e9rien in this place is gone,<br \/>and as we had instructed and informed him,<br \/>he soon found the holy old man Urbain<br \/>muss\u00e9 among the sepulchres of the Saints<sup id=\"cite_ref-21\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>.<br \/>And he, without staying long,<br \/>made his message; and when he said it,<br \/>Urban with joy raised his hands to the sky.<br \/><br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">190<\/span> From his eyes the tears fell:<br \/>\u201cAlmighty Lord, O Jesus Christ (he said),<br \/>sower of chaste counsel, pastor of us all,<br \/>the fruit of this seed of chastity<br \/>that you sowed in Cecile, gather it!<br \/>See ! like a diligent bee, without deceit,<br \/>Your servant C\u00e9cile always serves you!<br \/><br \/>Because this husband, whom she once took<br \/>just like the proud lion, she sends it here<br \/>as gentle as ever was a lamb, towards you! &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">200<\/span> And at this word here appeared<br \/>an old man, dressed in bright white clothes,<br \/>who had a <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">book<\/a> with gold letters in hand,<br \/>and stopped standing in front of Val\u00e9rien.<br \/><br \/>Val\u00e9rien fell as if scared to death<br \/>when he saw him, and he lifted him up then,<br \/>and on his book he proceeded to read the following:<br \/>&quot;A lord, a faith, a God without more,<br \/>one baptism, one father of all,<br \/>who is above all and among all everywhere<sup id=\"cite_ref-22\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>. &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">210<\/span> These words were all written gold.<\/p><\/div><p>\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"poem\"><p>When it was read, then said this old man,<br \/>&quot;Do you believe this thing or not? say yes or no. &quot;<br \/>&quot;I believe all that (said Val\u00e9rien)<br \/>because something truer than this, I dare say,<br \/>no being under heaven can think. &quot;<br \/>When the old man fainted, he did not know where,<br \/>and Pope Urban baptized him on the spot.<br \/><br \/>Val\u00e9rien goes home, and finds C\u00e9cile<br \/>inside his room with a standing angel;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">220<\/span> this angel had roses and lilies<br \/>two crowns, which he held in his hand.<br \/>And first of all to C\u00e9cile, as I understand it,<br \/>he gave one and then he offered<br \/>the other to Val\u00e9rien, her husband.<br \/><br \/>&quot;The body pure and unblemished the thought,<br \/>always keep these crowns well (he says);<br \/>from Heaven have I brought them to you,<br \/>and they will never rot,<br \/>nor will lose their sweet scent, believe me;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">230<\/span> and never be will see them with his eyes<br \/>let him not be pure and hate villainy.<br \/><br \/>And you, Val\u00e9rien, for what very quickly<br \/>you agree to good advice too,<br \/>say your desire and it will be granted to you. &quot;<br \/>&quot;I have a brother (then said Val\u00e9rien)<br \/>that I love more than anyone in the world.<br \/>I beg you my brother have mercy<br \/>to know the truth, as I do in this place. &quot;<br \/><br \/>The angel said: &quot;God loves your request,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">240<\/span> and both, with the palm of martyrdom,<br \/>you will come to his blessed feast. &quot;<br \/>And with that word his brother Tiburce is coming,<br \/>and when he smells the scent<br \/>that roses and lilies spread,<br \/>in his heart he began to wonder very much.<\/p><\/div><p>\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"poem\"><p>And said, &quot;I admire at this time of the year<br \/>where does this sweet smell come from<br \/>of roses and lilies that I can smell here.<br \/>Because even if I had them in my two hands,<br \/>the scent could not enter me deeper.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">250<\/span> The sweet smell that in my heart I find<br \/>changed me all into another species. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Val\u00e9rien said: &quot;Two crowns do we have,<br \/>snow-white and rose-red, which shine brightly,<br \/>and which your eye has no power to see;<br \/>and as you feel them through my prayer,<br \/>in the same way you will see them, dear brother,<br \/>if you want, without softness,<br \/>well believe and know the real truth. &quot;<br \/><br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">260<\/span> Tiburce replied: &quot;Are you telling me that?<br \/>for real, or is it in a dream that I hear it? &quot;<br \/>&quot;In dreams (says Val\u00e9rien), we have been<br \/>so far, my brother, for sure.<br \/>For the first time in truth is our home. &quot;<br \/>\u201cHow do you know that (said Tiburce), in what way? &quot;<br \/>Said Val\u00e9rien: &quot;That&#039;s what I&#039;m going to tell you.<br \/><br \/>The angel of god taught me the truth<br \/>That you will also see, if you want to deny<br \/>idols and being pure, and nothing else. &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">270<\/span> - And the miracle of these two crowns<br \/>Saint Ambrose in his preface was kind enough to speak;<br \/>solemnly the noble dear doctor<br \/>attests it, and says as follows:<br \/><br \/>To receive the palm of martyrdom,<br \/>Saint Cecilia, filled with the gifts of God,<br \/>the world and even his room began to abandon;<br \/>witness the confession of Tiburce and Val\u00e9rien,<br \/>to whom God in his goodness wanted to dispense<br \/>two wreaths of soft blooming flowers,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">280<\/span> and caused them to wear these crowns through his angel:<br \/><br \/>The virgin led these men to heavenly bliss;<br \/>the world has known what, in truth, is worth<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>to love chastity devoutly<sup id=\"cite_ref-23\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>. -<br \/>Then C\u00e9cile showed him, clear as day,<br \/>that all idols are a vain thing;<br \/>because they are silent and, what is more, are deaf,<br \/>and summoned him to leave his idols.<br \/><br \/>&quot;Whoever does not believe this is a beast,<br \/>(then said Val\u00e9rien) if we must not lie. &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">290<\/span> She caught herself kissing her breast, when she heard it,<br \/>and was very happy that he could see the truth.<br \/>&quot;On this day I take you for my parent&quot;,<br \/>said this dear blessed virgin girl;<br \/>after which she says what you&#039;re going to hear:<br \/><br \/>&quot;See, as well as the love of Christ (she said),<br \/>made me wife of your brother, all the same<br \/>on the hour I take you here as a parent,<br \/>since you want to despise your idols.<br \/>Go with your brother now and baptize yourself<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">300<\/span> and purifies; so that you can contemplate<br \/>the face of the angels your brother spoke of. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Tiburce said in response: \u201cDear brother,<br \/>first tell me where to go and to whom? &quot;<br \/>\u201cIn front of who? (he says). Come away with a happy face,<br \/>I want to lead you to Pope Urban. &quot;<br \/>\u201cTo Urbain? Val\u00e9rien, my brother,<br \/>(then said Tiburce), is that where you want to lead me?<br \/>Seems to me that would be a great wonder.<br \/><br \/>Don&#039;t you mean Urban (then he said),<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">310<\/span> who so many times was condemned to death,<br \/>and always remains in hiding here and there,<br \/>and dare not show his face?<br \/>We would burn it in such a red fire<br \/>if it was found or could be seen;<br \/>and us too, to keep him company.<br \/><br \/>And as we seek this deity<br \/>which is hidden in the secret of heaven,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>we would not be less ardent here below! &quot;<br \/>To which C\u00e9cile replied proudly:<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">320<\/span> &quot;One could fear with good reason<br \/>to lose this life, my dear brother,<br \/>if she was the only life without any other.<br \/><br \/>But there is a better life in another place,<br \/>that we will never lose, don&#039;t be afraid,<br \/>as the Son of God told us by his grace;<br \/>the Son of the Father<sup id=\"cite_ref-24\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> created all things;<br \/>and all that was created by reasonable thought,<br \/>the Spirit who first proceeded from the Father,<br \/>endowed him with a soul, without a doubt.<br \/><br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">330<\/span> By words and by miracles, the Son of God<br \/>when he was in this world, declared here<br \/>that there is another life where man can sojourn. &quot;<br \/>To which Tiburce replied: \u201cO dear sister,<br \/>did you not say earlier in your own words,<br \/>that there is only one God, Lord in truth,<br \/>and now of three how can you bear witness? &quot;<br \/><br \/>&quot;That&#039;s what I&#039;ll tell you (she says), before I leave.&quot;<br \/>Just as a man has three wisdoms,<br \/>memory, gear<sup id=\"cite_ref-25\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and intellect too,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">340<\/span> thus, in one being of divinity,<br \/>three people may well be. &quot;<br \/>So she began to preach to him very diligently<br \/>on the coming of Christ and to teach him his sorrows,<br \/><br \/>and many points of his passion;<br \/>how the Son of God in this world was retained,<br \/>for the full redemption of mankind,<br \/>who was in chains of sin and cold worries:<br \/>all these things she said to Tiburce.<br \/>And after that Tiburce, with good intentions,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">350<\/span> with Val\u00e9rien went to find Pope Urbain,<\/p><\/div><p>\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"poem\"><p>who thanked God, and, with a joyful and light heart,<br \/>baptized him, and did it in this place<br \/>perfect to know, knight of God.<br \/>And henceforth Tiburce obtained such grace<br \/>that every day he saw, in time and space,<br \/>the angel of God; and all kinds of favors<br \/>that he asked God, were quickly answered.<br \/><br \/>It would be very difficult to say in order<br \/>how many wonders Jesus did for them;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">360<\/span> but in the end, to make it short and clear,<br \/>the sergeants of the city of Rome fetched them,<br \/>and before Almache the prefect led them,<br \/>who questioned them, knew all their thoughts,<br \/>and to the image of Jupiter sent them,<br \/><br \/>and said: &quot;Whoever does not want to sacrifice,<br \/>let him cut off his head, that&#039;s my sentence. &quot;<br \/>On the hour these martyrs of which my tale is,<br \/>a certain Maxime who was an officer,<br \/>of the Prefect and his &quot;corniculaire&quot;<sup id=\"cite_ref-26\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">370<\/span> grabs them; and when he led away the martyrs,<br \/>he himself wept for the pity he felt.<br \/><br \/>When Maximus had listened to the doctrine of the saints,<br \/>he obtained leave of the tormentors,<br \/>and brought them to his house without more;<br \/>and preached so much that before evening<br \/>they had snatched the tormentors<br \/>and Maxime and each of his people<br \/>to false faith, to believe in God alone.<br \/><br \/>Cecile came, when it was dark,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">380<\/span> with priests who baptized them all together,<br \/>and then when the light of day came,<br \/>C\u00e9cile said to them with a very calm face:<br \/>\u201cNow, very dear and much loved knights of Christ,<br \/>reject all works of darkness<br \/>and arm yourself with armor of light.<\/p><\/div><p>\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"poem\"><p>Verily you have fought a great battle,<br \/>have finished your course, have kept your faith;<br \/>go to the crown of life which cannot fail;<br \/>the righteous judge you served<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">390<\/span> will give it to you as it deserves. &quot;<br \/>And when it was said as I tell it,<br \/>they were led to make the sacrifice.<br \/><br \/>But when they were brought to the said place,<br \/>to make the conclusion short,<br \/>they did not want to incense or sacrifice,<br \/>but on their knees they fell to the ground<br \/>with humble heart and grave devotion,<br \/>and both lost their heads on the spot.<br \/>Their souls went to the king of grace.<br \/><br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">400<\/span> This Maxime, who saw it happen,<br \/>with pitiful tears said incontinent<br \/>that he saw their souls slide to heaven<br \/>with angels full of clarity and light,<br \/>and from his word converts more than one;<br \/>why Almache made him beat so much<br \/>with a lead whip, that he lost his life.<br \/><br \/>C\u00e9cile took him and buried him on the spot<br \/>gently near Tiburce and Val\u00e9rien,<br \/>inside their tomb, under the stone.<br \/>And then afterwards, Almache in a hurry<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">410<\/span> sent his ministers to publicly seek<br \/>Cecile, so that she came in his presence<br \/>sacrifice and incense Jupiter.<br \/><br \/>But they, converted to his wise word,<br \/>cried grievously and gave full credence<br \/>at his word and cried more and more:<br \/>&quot;Christ, Son of God without difference,<br \/>is true God, this is all our thinking,<br \/>he who has such a good servant to serve him;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">420<\/span> we believe it with one voice, should we die!<br \/><br \/>Almache, who hears it does,<br \/>had Cecile fetched, so that he could see her,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>and first of all, here is what his request was:<br \/>&quot;What kind of woman are you? Then he said.<br \/>- &quot;I was born a nice woman&quot; she said.<br \/>- &quot;I ask you (he said), despite your having some,<br \/>your religion and your belief. &quot;<br \/><br \/>&quot;You started your question foolishly,<br \/>(she said), who would like two answers enclosed<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">430<\/span> in one request; it is to inquire while ignoring. &quot;<br \/>Almache replied to this judgment:<br \/>&quot;How come you answer so harshly?&quot; &quot;<br \/>- &quot; From where ? (she said, to that question),<br \/>of conscience and in good faith not feigned. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Almache said: &quot;Don&#039;t you care<br \/>of my power? She replied:<br \/>\u201cYour power (she said) is very little to fear;<br \/>because the power of every mortal is not<br \/>than like a bladder, full of wind, for sure.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">440<\/span> Because with a needle point, when it&#039;s swollen,<br \/>all his swelling can be put down well. &quot;<br \/><br \/>- &quot;You were at fault when you started (he said),<br \/>and now in your fault you persevere;<br \/>don&#039;t you know that our powerful generous princes<br \/>have thus ordered and made a prescription,<br \/>that every Christian will suffer penance<br \/>if he does not renounce his Christianity,<br \/>but will he go away if he wants to deny it? &quot;<br \/><br \/>- &quot;Your princes wander like your nobility,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">450<\/span> (said at the time C\u00e9cile), and by crazy sentence<br \/>you are making us guilty and that is not true;<br \/>because you, who know well our innocence,<br \/>for what we do bow<br \/>to Christ, and that we bear a Christian name,<br \/>you impute it to us with crime and blame.<br \/><br \/>But we who know that name means<br \/>virtuous, cannot abjure it. &quot;<br \/>Almache replied: \u201cChoose between the two;<br \/>sacrifice or deny Christianity<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">460<\/span> so that you can escape through there. &quot;<br \/>To what the holy blessed virgin<br \/>laughed and said to the judge:<br \/><br \/>&quot;O judge, confused in your foolishness,<br \/>do you want me to deny innocence<br \/>to make me a perverse creature? (she says).<br \/>See! he hides here in audience,<br \/>he has wide eyes and he gets angry when he listens to me. &quot;<br \/>To what Almache: &quot;Poor wretch,<br \/>don&#039;t you know how far my power can extend<br \/><br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">470<\/span> Have not our mighty princes given me,<br \/>yes, and power and authority<br \/>to make people die or live?<br \/>Why then speak to me so proudly? &quot;<br \/>&quot;I only speak firmly (she said),<br \/>not proudly, because I say it, as for us,<br \/>we mortally hate the vice of pride.<br \/><br \/>And if you&#039;re not afraid to hear the truth,<br \/>So I want to show you everything clearly, for reason,<br \/>that you have told a very big lie in this.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">480<\/span> You say your princes gave you power<br \/>and to bruise and give life to a creature,<br \/>you, who can do nothing but take away life alone;<br \/>you have no other power or leave!<br \/><br \/>It is permissible for you to say that your princes made you<br \/>minister of death; if you say more,<br \/>you lie, because your power is naked<sup id=\"cite_ref-27\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>. &quot;<br \/>- &quot;Leave this boldness (said Almache then),<br \/>and sacrifice to our gods, before leaving;<br \/>point<sup id=\"cite_ref-28\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> do not harm me insults that you address to me,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">490<\/span> for I can suffer them like a philosopher;<br \/><br \/>but the insults that I cannot endure<br \/>are those you say of our gods \u201d(he said).<br \/>C\u00e9cile replied: &quot;O foolish creature,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>you haven&#039;t said a word since you spoke to me<br \/>that I do not recognize your stupidity there;<br \/>and that you are, in any way and what you want,<br \/>ignorant officer and vain judge.<br \/><br \/>Nothing is missing in the eyes of your body<br \/>so that you are blind cause thing that we all see<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">500<\/span> to be a stone, as it is visible,<br \/>this same stone you want to call it God.<br \/>I advise you, that your hand rests on it,<br \/>and feel it well, you will realize that it is stone,<br \/>since you can&#039;t see mie with your blind eyes.<br \/><br \/>It&#039;s a shame that the people have to<br \/>despise you thus and laugh at your madness;<br \/>because we know very commonly and everywhere<br \/>that mighty God is in his heaven above,<br \/>and these images, you can see it well,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">510<\/span> neither to you nor to themselves can be of any use,<br \/>because indeed they are not worth a crumb. &quot;<br \/><br \/>She says these words and others like them,<br \/>and he got angry and ordered that she be led<br \/>at home, &quot;and in her house (he said),<br \/>burn her in a bath of red flames<sup id=\"cite_ref-29\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0&quot;.<br \/>And just as he had ordered so was done;<br \/>because in a bath they locked him up,<br \/>and night and day a great fire below was kindling.<br \/><br \/>The long night and one more day,<br \/>despite all the fire and ardor of the bath,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">520<\/span> she remained quite cold, felt no pain,<br \/>that didn&#039;t make her sweat a drop.<br \/>But in this bath she was to lose her life;<br \/>because he, Almache, with the very wicked design<br \/>to bruise her in the bath sent his messenger.<br \/><br \/>With three blows on the collar he then strikes her,<br \/>the tormentor, but no matter what,<br \/>he could not cut the collar in two;<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>and for what there was at that time an ordinance<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">530<\/span> that no man owed a man to inflict penance<br \/>to celebrate the quarter blow, soft or grievance,<br \/>this executioner dared not do more.<br \/><br \/>But half-dead, the neck cut,<br \/>he left her lying there and went on his way.<br \/>The Christians who were around her<br \/>with linens captured his beautiful blood.<br \/>Three days did she live in this torment<br \/>and never ceased to teach them the faith;<br \/>to those she had built, she began to preach.<br \/><br \/>She gave them her furniture and her belongings<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">540<\/span> and to Pope Urban then entrusted them<br \/>and said: &quot;I asked the king of heaven<br \/>to have three days&#039; respite and no more,<br \/>to recommend to you, before I go,<br \/>these souls that see and so that I can do<br \/>from my home here forever a church. &quot;<br \/><br \/>Saint Urban with his deacons privately<br \/>took the body and buried it at night<br \/>among his other saints worthily.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">550<\/span> His house was called the church of Sainte-C\u00e9cile;<br \/>Saint Urbain consecrated her as best he could;<br \/>and there, still today, in a noble way,<br \/>we pay homage to Christ and his saint.<\/p><\/div><div><i>Here ends the tale of the Second Nun.<\/i><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breton Mythology Wiki Geoffrey Chaucer is an English writer and poet born in London in the 1340s and died\u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25259,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14754\/revisions\/25259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}