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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Lucy
DESCRIPTION:ST LUCY \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nSt Lucy is said to have been a Sicilian\, born in the city of Syracuse of noble \nand wealthy parents and brought up a Christian. She wished to devote her life to \nGod and to give her fortune to the poor\, but during the Diocletian persecutions \na man\, usually represented as a Roman soldier\, tried to rape her\, and she \nresisted. He denounced her as a Christian\, and she was arrested\, tortured and \nkilled. \nThough these traditions have no ascertainable historical basis\, her \nconnection with Syracuse and the existence of an early cult connected with her \nname are well established. A fourth-century inscription mentioning that a girl \ncalled Euskia died on Lucy’s feast-day survives at Syracuse. Lucy was honoured \nat Rome in the sixth century as one of the most illustrious virgin martyrs whose \nlives the Church celebrates. Her name is included in the Canons of the Roman \nand Ambrosian rites and occurs in the oldest Roman sacramentaries\, in Greek \nliturgical books\, and in the marble calendar of Naples. Churches were dedicated \nto her in Rome\, Naples\, and eventually Venice. In England two ancient \nchurches were dedicated to her\, and she has certainly been known since the \nend of the seventh century. St Aldhelm\, bishop of Sherborne (23 May)\, \ncelebrated her in both prose and verse\, though he unfortunately relied on \nspurious sources. \nPossibly on account of her name\,which has connotations of light and \npurity (Latin lux/Lucia)\, legends have long gathered around St Lucy. Some of \nthe legends and many paintings relate to her eyes. One gruesome story is that \nshe tore her eyes out rather than surrender to her attacker\, and she is sometimes \nshown offering them to him. Oddly\, she is the patron saint of those with eye \ntrouble\, and a gentler interpretation is that this is because the eyes are the \nsource of our awareness of light. Her feast-day had long been the occasion for \nspecial ceremonies connected with virginity. It occurs near the shortest day of \nthe year and is especially celebrated in Sweden as a festival of light\, with a \nprocession of young girls dressed in white and crowned with lighted candles. \nThe song “Santa Lucia” celebrates her memory.
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