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Lucia of Syracuse Lucia de Syracuse
Her rejected pagan bridegroom, Paschasius, denounced Lucy as a Christian to the governor of Sicily. The governor sentenced her to forced prostitution, but when guards went to fetch her, they could not move her even when they hitched her to a team of oxen. The governor ordered her killed instead. After torture that included having her eyes torn out, she was surrounded by bundles of wood which were set afire; they went out. She prophesied against her persecutors, and was executed by being stabbed to death with a dagger. Her name is listed in the prayer "Nobis quoque peccatoribus" in the Canon of the Mass.
Legend says her eyesight was restored before her death. This and the meaning of her name led to her connection with eyes, the blind, eye trouble, etc.
against blindness against dysentery against epidemics against eye disease against hemorraghes authors Begijnendijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium blind people Conzano, Italy cutlers eye problems glaziers laborers martyrs Mtarfa, Malta peasants Perugia, Italy saddlers salesmen sore eyes sore throats stained glass workers Syracuse, Sicily, Italy throat infections Villa Santa Lucia, Latium, Italy writers
Prayer I to... Prayer II to... Prayer III to... Prayer IV to... cord eyes eyes on a dish lamp swords woman hitched to a yoke of oxen woman in the company of Saint Agatha, Saint Agnes of Rome, Barbara, Catherine of Alexandria, and Saint Thecla woman kneeling before the tomb of Saint Agatha
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