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The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales


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General Prologue

The Prologue to the Friar's Tale

The Knight's Tale

The Friar's Tale

The Miller's Prologue

The Prologue to the Summoner's tale

The Miller's Tale

The Summoner's Tale

Prologue of the Reeve's Tale

The Prologue of the Scholar's Tale

The Reeve's Tale

The Scholar's Tale

Prologue of the Cook's Tale

The Prologue of the Merchant's Tale

The Cook's Tale

The Merchant's Tale

Introduction to the Sergeant-at-law's tale

Epilogue to the Merchant's Tale

The Sergeant-at-law's tale

The Squire's Tale

Epilogue of the Sergeant-at-law's tale

Epilogue to the Squire's Tale

The Sea captain's tale

The Franklin's Tale

The Prioress' tale

The Doctor's Tale

The Prologue to Sir Topaz

The Prologue of the Doctor's Tale

Sir Topaz

The Prologue to the Pardoner's Tale

The Prologue to the tale of Melibeus

The Pardoner's Tale

The tale of Meleibeus

The Prologue of the second Nun's Tale

The Prologue of the Monk's tale

The Second Nun's Tale

The Monk's tale

The Prologue of the Cannon Assistant's Tale

Prologue of the Nun Priest's Tale

The Cannon Assistant's Tale

The Nun Priest's Tale

The Manciple's Prologue

Epilogue to the Nun Priest's Tale

The Parson's Prologue

The Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale

The Parson's Tale

The Wife of Bath's Tale

Author's Valediction

 

The Second Nun's Tale


Cecelia, a virtuous Roman woman, refuses to indulge in sex when she is married.  She directs her husband to a tomb and when he prays he is heard by Saint Urban, who had been hiding there, and is praised.  Her husband converts to Christianity and chastity after this miracle.  Valerian, her husband, returns and is blessed by the presence of an angel, who grants him the favor of having his brother convert to Christianity.  Cecelia and Valerian convert his brother.  They went to a pagan temple and refused to worship pagan gods as an act of faith, and they converted the priest there, who was flogged and killed for his disobedience.  Cecelia is taken to the ruler of the area, Almachus, and she is condemned to die in fire.  However, for three days, she is not killed or harmed by the fire.  Then, an executioner was sent to decapitate her, but he did not fully sever her neck, and she lived three more days before she died.  Saint Urban consecrates her body and a church in her honor. 

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