Saint Lucy feast day the patron saint of the blind, eyes, and light. | Dahonking Vlogs

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SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Lucy of Syracuse, Virgin and Martyr December 13—Memorial Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of virgins, the blind, and Syracuse, Sicily A garden enclosed, no man would lock her in his embrace Today’s saint is one of only eight women (Mary included) commemorated in Eucharistic Prayer I: “Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia, and all the Saints…” It was Pope Saint Gregory the Great (590–604), familiar with the Christian traditions of Sicily through his

Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia), martyred in Syracuse (Sicily) in third-century is the patroness of the blind and those afflicted with diseases of the eyes. She lost her life during the persecution of Christians in the early fourth century. Her veneration spread to Rome so that by the sixth century the whole Church recognized her courage in defense of the faith. She was a young Christian woman who vowed to live her life in service of Christ. Her mother tried to arrange a marriage for her with a pagan a