Stefano Maderno, St. Cecilia

1599
Marble
Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome

In the sculpture, St. Cecilia extends three fingers with her right hand and one with her left, testifiying to the Trinity, three persons in one God. The sculptor attested that this was how her incorrupt body looked when her tomb was opened in 1599.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.