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Vintage ceramic ashtray features St Cecelia church, located in Rome. Ironic that a souvenir from a church would be an ashtray I found this at a market in Florence, measures 3 3/4 in. A rare find, & quite a conversation piece! Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere rione, devoted to the Roman martyr Saint Cecilia. http://www.benedettinesantacecilia.it/htm/Storia.html The Monastery of S. Cecilia, stands in the oldest area of Rome, the characteristic Trastevere, on the house of the martyr whose title is proud, in the insula Anicia, to whose gens belonged our S. P. Benedict. Immediately after the martyrdom of St. Cecilia (third century), the ancient Roman domus became a place of worship and, even before, during the life of the saint, it had distinguished itself as a place of welcome of various forms of poverty & witness of evangelical life. The Basilica of St. Cecilia, where the nuns celebrate the liturgy of the hours daily, is one of the most evocative of the city. in the crypt is venerated the body of St. Cecilia, found in the catacombs of San Callisto by Pope Paschal I & brought back to the house of the martyr, on which Pope Paschal built the church solemnly consecrating it in 821. Found intact in 1599, the body of St. Cecilia was portrayed in a splendid statue by Stefano Maderno. Famous is the ciborium by Arnolfo di Cambio & the fresco of the Last Judgment that Pietro Cavallini painted on the counter-façade of the church, today a jewel preserved on top of the monastic choir. Pope Paschal also founded a Monastery. Over the centuries there have been different monastic presences. Between 1344 & 1419 & then between 1438 & 1527 the Monastery was inhabited by the Umiliati, an Order born in Lombardy in the second half of the twelfth century, which formulated a rule, whose main sources are the Augustinian & Benedictine rules, with the inspiring ideal of poverty, work, charity. It included in the monastic family monks, nuns, lay people & lay people who committed themselves with a propositum of evangelical life; involved different states of life & social condition. It valued women's work integrated with male work. The Umiliati practiced, in "S. Cecilia", the art of wool. The order of the Humiliated was suppressed in the sixteenth century. The Monastery was refounded, with the bull of Pope Clement VII, on June 25, 1527, & entrusted to a group of Benedictine nuns, who moved to "S. Cecilia" on November 11, 1527, led by D. Maura Magalotta, who became its first Abbess. The nuns came from Campo Marzio in Rome, where a monastery was located, now extinct. The community of Campo Marzio was originally from Basilian Cappadocia, & had brought to Rome the relics of St. Gregory Nazianzen, together with one of the oldest icons of the Madonna "Avvocata nostra" currently guarded by the representatives in Rome of the Syro-Antiochian Patriarchate, near Campo Marzio. The consequent devotion to Mary with the title of "Our
