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Along with her husband, who she converted to Catholicism, and his brother, they formed a ministry to provide proper burials for other Christians who had been martyred for their faith. For this, the two men were also martyred. When Cecilia recovered their bodies for burial, she, too, was arrested and condemned to die. They first tried to smother her in a hot sauna but after three days she was still alive. The soldiers next tried 3 times (the maximum allowed by law) to behead her. Again they failed. However, they had inflicted a mortal wound in her neck that caused her death 3 days later. While she lay dying she made arrangements for her home to be willed to the Church to be used for worship and also arranged that all her wealth and other possessions would be distributed to the poor.
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