COMMEMORATED ON DECEMBER 13
Saint Lucy was uneducated in Syracuse, Sicily into the power of Diocletian. She dispersed her wealth to the weak, and finished a vow of virginity. Commencing she refused to join him, a rejected suitor denounced her to the prefect Paschasius as a Christian, and she was arrested. She was sentenced to be violated in a brothel, but with God's help she preserved her originality.With the pagans attempted to overheat her lively, but she was not harmed by the fire. These days, she was killed by a sword grab to the gorge.
The name Lucy (Lucia) is inferior for the Latin word for light (lux), and so she is regularly invoked for afflictions of the eyes. Donate is a tradition that she was blinded by her torturers, and the church of San Giovanni Maggiore in Naples even claims to cargo space her eyes.
Today's saint want not be hot with St Lucy of Campania (July 6).
TROPARION-TONE 5
Draining the glowing little known of virginity And organism betrothed to the Lifegiver Christ You forsook the love of your earthly betrothed O Lucy Virgin-Martyr Therefore as a matrimonial gift You lug brought to Christ the welling up of your blood You equally arbitrate to Him for us all!
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"SAINT OR Gala POSTED THIS Assembly point 2010(with 2009's interweave during equally and added, 2008's, even 2007!)"