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Saint Lucy d. 304?, Sicilian virgin martyr. According to legend, at an early age she vowed herself to God. She rejected a pagan suitor, who then denounced her during the persecutions under Diocletian. She is popular in Sicily and in S Italy. In Italian her name is Lucia. Her attributes: a lamp, an awl, a sword, or a wound in her throat. Feast: Dec. 13.

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Lucy, St. According to tradition, she was a native of Syracuse who proclaimed her Christian faith by distributing her goods to the poor during the Diocletianic persecution. She was denounced to the authorities by the man to whom she had been betrothed, and martyred in 303. Feast day, 13 Dec.

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