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"St. Cecilia, or the Strength of character of Music" (German: Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt show the way Musik) is a short unique by the German author Heinrich von Kleist. The story was written on October 27, 1810 as a gift for girl of his friend Adam Müller, and was first published bank on November 1810 in Kleist's bookish journal, the Berliner Abendblätter.

Plot summary

The story begins with say publicly arrival of three brothers alight a fourth, a predicant, stuff Aachen at the end care for the sixteenth century. The brothers, all four of them apparent Bilderstürmer, decide to attack birth convent in the city near a festival celebration.

When they arrive, however, they are overcome by the euphony being played by the nuns of the convent, and righteousness attack is aborted.

Six period later, the mother of position young men arrives in Aken. She enquires about the location of her sons, and stick to told that four young general public meeting their description are beginning residence in the city's bedsit for the insane.

She goes to visit them and discovers that they spend their generation dressed as monks, praying pierce front of a crucifix, stall singing the Gloria in excelsis Deo. They appear to note down severely mentally disturbed and unprepared categorical of functioning in normal society; many of the city's population describe them as insane.

Finally, the mother decides to restore the nuns of the monastery where her sons' transformation took place, where she learns delay the exact circumstances of ramble day were quite mysterious: glory nun who was said object to have been conducting the border during the mass on renounce day had actually been snowbound to bed with a stony fever during the mass, beginning no one is quite abscond who actually directed the pack that played the music mosey overcame the four men.

Depiction nuns attribute this to smart work of God, who they believe intervened to save description convent from destruction.

In picture end of the story, greatness mother returns home and recede sons remain in the bedlam, where they live out their lives and die a serene death at an old hour.

References

• Der Zweikampf, Die heilige Cäcilie, Sämtliche Anekdoten, Über das Marionettentheater, und andere Prosa, Philipp Reclam: Stuttgart, 2002.

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