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LUCIA (or LucY), ST

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LUCIA (or See also:LucY), ST , virgin and See also:martyr of See also:Syracuse, whose name figures in the See also:canon of the See also:mass, and whose festival is celebrated on the 13th of See also:December. According to the See also:legend, she lived in the reign of See also:Diocletian. Her See also:mother, having been miraculously cured of an illness at the See also:sepulchre of St See also:Agatha in See also:Catania, was persuaded by Lucia to distribute all her See also:wealth to the poor. The youth to whom the daughter had been betrothed forthwith denounced her to Pascasius, the See also:prefect, who ordered that she should be taken away and subjected to shameful See also:outrage. But it was found that no force which could be applied was able to move her from the spot on which she stood; even boiling oil and burning See also:pitch had no See also:power to hurt her, until at last she was slain with the See also:sword. The most important documents concerning St Lucy are the mention in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum and the See also:ancient inscription discovered at Syracuse, in which her festival is indicated. Many paintings represent her bearing her eyes in her See also:hand or on a See also:salver. Some artists have even represented her See also:blind, but nothing in her Acta justifies this See also:representation. It is probable that it originated in a See also:play upon words (Lucia, from See also:Lat. lux, See also:light), just as St Clair is invoked in cases of See also:eye-disease. See O. Caietanus, Vitae sanctorum Siculorum, i. 114-12I (See also:Palermo, 1657) ; loannes de Ioanne, Acta sincera sanctae Luciae (Palermo, 1758) ; Analecta Bollandiana, xxii.

492; Cahier, Caracteristiques See also:

des See also:saints, i. See also:toy (See also:Paris, 1867). (H.

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