Iacobus de Voragine: Historia Sanctae Luciae. Lucia dicitur a luce. Lux enim habet pulchritudinem in aspectione, quia, ut dicit Ambrosius, lucis natura haec est, ut omnis in aspectu eius gratia sit. Habet etiam diffusionem sine coinquinatione, quia per quaecumque immunda diffusa non coinquinatur. Rectum incessum sine curvitate, longissimam lineam pertransit sine morosa dilatione. Per hoc ostenditur, quod beata virgo Lucia habuit decorem virginitatis sine aliqua corruptione, diffusionem caritatis sine aliquo immundo amore, rectum incessum intensionis in Deum sine aliqua obliquitate, longissimam lineam divinae operationis sine neglegentiae tarditate.
Vel Lucia dicitur quasi lucis via. Lucia virgo Syracusana nobilis genere audiens famam sanctae Agathae per totam Siciliam divulgari sepulcrum eius adiit cum matre sua Euthicia annis quattuor fluxum sanguinis incurabiliter patiente. Cum ergo rediissent, fit quotidie distractio rerum et dantur in necessatibus pauperum. Paschasius dixit: "Cessabunt verba, cum perventum fuerit ad verbera. " Lucy of Syracuse. St. Lucy. Lucy. This article is about the Christian saint.
For other meanings, see Saint Lucia (disambiguation) Lucia of Syracuse (283–304), also known as Saint Lucy, or Saint Lucia (Italian Santa Lucia), was a young Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Orthodox Churches. She is one of eight women, who along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.
Lucy. Saint Lucy of Syracuse. St. Lucy. The Legends of Lucy of Syracuse. A telling by Eldrbarry: How did a girl who died for her faith in the 4th century AD in Sicily become a symbol of the Christmas season with candles in her hair and a tray of sweet breads in Scandinavia?
In between are many legends, and maybe just a few facts. Santa Lucia's Day is the first day of the Christmas Celebration in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. How Lucia is celebrated today stems partly from a beauty contest arranged by a Swedish newspaper in the twenties, and partly from traditions going back many years before that. On the morning of the 13th, a young girl previously elected is dressed up as Lucia in a white gown with a red sash, and with a crown of lingenberry and lit candles on her head. St. Over a thousand years ago, King Canute of the Norsemen declared that Christmas would begin with her feast, and last for a month.
Perhaps a clue lays in the tray of sweet breads she carries. For three years Lucy resisted being forced into that marriage unwillingly. Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profiles: Saint Lucy. Catherine Fournier Saint Lucy: Feast Day, December 13.
Symbols: cord; eyes on a dish; hitched to a yoke of oxen; in the company of Saints Agatha, Agnes of Rome, Barbara, Catherine of Alexandria, and Thecla; kneeling before the tomb of Saint Agatha; lamp; swords Young Families Saint Lucy lived in Sicily about 300 years after Jesus was born. Her parents were Christians, even though many people in the world at that time were still pagans, who worshipped other gods. When she was grown up, something wonderful happened. Lucy's mother became ill, and they both went on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Agatha to pray for healing. But the rich young man was not happy. Saint Lucy. Vita dei santi Saint Lucy Passages from the book: Saint Lucy - written by Ines Belski Lagazzi Although very little information has been handed down to us, from the Grecian and Latin acts, about this saintly martyr who shines among the most luminous constellations of Heaven, the memories of Saint Gregory Magno, a Father of the western church, who lived in the VI century, have left us with ample information about her life and her martyrdom, and a poem in verse “De Laudibus Virginum”, by Saint Adelmo who lived during the VII century.
Saint Lucie. Sources: John Dixon Salt, Wikipedia, Dr.
Saint Lucy. Readings from the Golden Legend. St. Lucy- Iconography. Saint Lucy. Lives of the Saints: December: 13. St. Lucy, Virgin, Martyr. Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894], at sacred-texts.com p. 378.
Saints & Sainthood: Origin and Nature of Saints in Christianity. List of saints. This is an incomplete list of Christian saints in alphabetical order by Christian name, but if necessary by surname, the place, or attribute part of the name as well.
There are more than 10,000 canonized Roman Catholic saints. Among the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Communions, the numbers may be even higher, since there is no fixed process of "canonization" and each individual jurisdiction within the two Orthodox communions independently maintains parallel lists of saints that have only partial overlap. Note that 78 popes are considered saints..[1] Wikipedia contains calendars of saints for particular denominations, listed by the day of the year on which they are traditionally venerated, as well as a chronological list of saints and blesseds, listed by their date of death. Christian saints since 450 AD[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] 1 The saint has been removed from the Roman Catholic calendar of saints due to a lack of historical evidence.
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