Virgin-martyr Lucy of Syracuse (304) Commemorated on December 13 During Diocletian's persecutians, the Christian maiden Lucy
went with her mother on pilgrimage to the tomb of St Agatha (February 5), to
pray for her mother's healing from an ailment. Saint Agatha appeared to Lucy in
a dream and said 'Lucy, my sister, why do you ask from me what your own faith
can obtain? Your mother is healed. You will soon be the glory of Syracuse as I
am of Catania.' Lucy's mother was healed from that day, and Lucy determined to
consecrate herself entirely to God. She broke off an engagement to a nobly-born
young man and gave her large dowry of land and jewels to the poor. Her would-be
husband angrily denounced her as a Christian to the Governor of Syracuse. |
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