She popular tradition, Saint Lucia is the day in which they begin to manifest the rigors of winter and the longest night of the year.
Saint Lucia is the Holy Light, designed to reassure that the darkness will not prevail definitely on the light, and soon the day will rise again. Saint Lucia is also the patron saint of eyesight.
It is a beloved saint from the north to the south of the Old Continent where it gives life, every December 13 in various traditions. But who was Saint Lucia?
Saint Lucia is the Holy Light, designed to reassure that the darkness will not prevail definitely on the light, and soon the day will rise again. Saint Lucia is also the patron saint of eyesight.
It is a beloved saint from the north to the south of the Old Continent where it gives life, every December 13 in various traditions. But who was Saint Lucia?
BETWEEN HISTORY AND LEGEND
Saint Lucia was a young Syracusan lived around the third and fourth centuries. According to tradition, it was a beautiful girl betrothed to a young fellow countryman. His future seemed to be similar to that of all its peers: the lay ahead a life as a wife and mother of a family. One day, the mother of Lucia, Eutychie, due to an illness, was hit by serious bleeding. The young, desperate, left for Catania to go to implore the grace of the martyr martire Agata..
He did not know he was going to discover the great plan that God had for her. He arrived at the tomb, appeared quite the same Agata asking her to devote her life to the poor, the marginalized and suffering children.
Back in Syracuse, Lucia began, immediately, to carry out the mission entrusted to her. First of all broke off the engagement. Then he devoted himself to distribute the assets of its large dowry to the poor, along the long and narrow tunnels of the catacombs, with a lamp attached to the head.
Back in Syracuse, Lucia began, immediately, to carry out the mission entrusted to her. First of all broke off the engagement. Then he devoted himself to distribute the assets of its large dowry to the poor, along the long and narrow tunnels of the catacombs, with a lamp attached to the head.
Boyfriend abandoned did not accept his decision, not so much because he realized he had lost the love of the girl, but because he saw his chances to take possession of the riches that he should bring a dowry Lucia. And such was his defiance to induce him to accuse the ex-girlfriend, in front of the terrible prefect Pascasio, of being Christian.
Those
were the years in which Christianity was fiercely persecuted by
Diocletian, but also the time of the most shining examples of faith,
which include even Lucy herself. Arrested, threatened and tortured, he still proclaimed follower of Christ and not agreed to renounce their faith. Being a girl too strong to be bent, she had to die.So,
Lucy was exposed in the public brothel and did not hesitate to testify
their tenacity and consistency that the Romans blamed. And affirming that the body is only contaminated if the soul agrees,
gave way to the onlookers, to attend a prodigious event: no one, not
even six men and six oxen, they managed to shake her slender body now,
miraculously, very heavy.
But before the execution Capital Lucia was able to receive the Eucharist, and is predicted the death of Diocletian, which occurred in a few years, it's the end of the persecutions ended, according to a traditional version of the story, in 313 A.D. with Constantine's edict which established religious tolerance and freedom of worship.
But before the execution Capital Lucia was able to receive the Eucharist, and is predicted the death of Diocletian, which occurred in a few years, it's the end of the persecutions ended, according to a traditional version of the story, in 313 A.D. with Constantine's edict which established religious tolerance and freedom of worship.
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