LUCY

Patron Saint of Syracuse
Patron of blindness
Feast Day Dec 13th

BIOGRAPHY

• Lucy was born to a rich family
• Her father died
• Consecrated her virginity
• Mother is healed
• Breaks off marriage with Pagan man

BIOGRAPHY

• Pagan man reports her to the Govener
• Govenener sends soldiers to send her to a brothel
• Cant move her
• Torture her and kill her

Hagiography
Three ways she lost her eyes

Those whose hearts are pure are the temples of the Holy Spirit.

-Saint Lucy

No one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.
-Saint Lucy of Syracuse

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QUESTIONS

• What city was Saint Lucy a patron of?
• Where did Lucy and her mother visit?
• How many legends are there about Lucy losing her eyes?
• Where did the Govener want to take Saint Lucy?
• What does every picture of Saint Lucy have in her hands?

ANSWERS

• Syracuse
• Saint Agatha's tomb
• Three
• A Brothel
• Food