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Lucy
was born in Sicily in the late second century. She was known
for her dazzling eyes, which she once plucked out herself and
sent to a lustful suitor on a platter in an attempt to convert
him. She succeeded and legend has it that her eyes grew back
more beautiful than before. Lucy took her mother to the tomb
of St. Agatha to be cured of internal bleeding (which she was).
Lucy gratefully gave away the family fortune to charity, with
her mother’s blessing. But her gold-digging fiancee was
outraged, and he betrayed Lucy by outing her as a Christian
to the authorities. They tried unsuccessfully to deflower her
in a whorehouse and burn her at the stake. In the end, she was
killed with a sword through the neck. Lucy is also the patron
of gondoliers, glaziers, lamplighters, writers, salespersons
and peddlers; and she's invoked against dysentery, eye-disease,
hemorrhage and throat disease. Her feast day is December 13. |
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