（37）The importance of music and its patron, Saint Cecilia

Miyazaki, early November 1926
To Amerio Franco seminarians

Dear Amerio,

I'm sending you the program for the music concert we held the other day (October 23rd and 24th) in Hitoyoshi City, Miyazaki Prefecture. It was a great success. Thank God! Music is useful in Japan too.

Father Cimatti plays the piano with a cloth placed over the keys

Now, the purpose of this letter, if it reaches you in time, is to wish you and your fellow musicians the joy of the celebration of St. Cecilia. Tell them:

a	Love Saint Cecilia, who, according to Don Bosco's teaching, is a model of purity for young people.
b	Love St. Cecilia, the patroness of music, for which Don Bosco made her patroness of music in the Salesian Society.
c	Pray for me.

Be cheerful and do what I wrote in my last letter.

Your Father V. Cimatti