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	Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Syracuse became the seat of the Roman government in Sicily, and remained such until the Byzantine epoch.
		Of Marcianos II it is related that he was consecrated not at Rome, but at Syracuse, since the Emperor Leo the Isaurian (726) had removed Southern Italy from the jurisdiction of Rome, and had then elevated Syracuse to the dignity of a metropolitan see, over the thirteen other dioceses of Sicily.
		In 1816 the Diocese of Caltagirone was detached from Syracuse.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/herbermann/cathen14.html?term=syracuse (2072 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Lucy of Syracuse
		To change the mother's mind about the girl's new faith, Lucy prayed at the tomb of Saint Agatha, and her mother's long haemorrhagic illness was cured.
		Her mother agreed with Lucy's desire to live for God, and Lucy became known as a patron of those with maladies like her mother's.
		Her rejected pagan bridegroom, Paschasius, denounced Lucy as a Christian to the governor of Sicily.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintl01.htm (324 words)

	Lucy of Syracuse
		Lucy of Syracuse (283-304) was a rich, young Christian who is venerated as a Saint by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
		To change the mother's mind about the girl's new faith, Lucy prayed at the tomb of Saint Agatha[?], and her mother's long haemorrhagic illness was cured.
		Mainly in Sweden the memory of Lucy (called Lucia) is celebrated each year on December 13, in a ceremony where a woman portraying Lucy, candles attached to her head, leads a procession of other women holding candles.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lucy_of_Syracuse.html (232 words)

	New Zealand Vision Services for Children
		Saint Lucy of Syracuse, also known as Saint Lucia, (traditional dates 283-304) was a rich young Christian martyr who is venerated as a Saint by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
		Lucy means "light", with the same Latin root, lux, as "lucid," which means "clear, radiant, understandable." "In 'Lucy' is said, the way of light" Jacobus de Voragine stated at the beginning of his vita of the Blessed Virgin Lucy, in Legenda Aurea, the most widely-read version of the Lucy legend in the Middle Ages.
		St Lucy's history is shrouded in darkness: all that is really known for certain is that she was a martyr in Syracuse in Diocletian's persecutions of 303 A.D..
	www.vea.org.nz /st_lucy.htm (173 words)

	Feast of St.Lucy
		Lucy (Santa Lucia) was a young Sicilian girl who vowed to live as a virgin in devotion to Christ.
		Because of the above, St. Lucy is the patron of those with eye problems, and is often depicted carrying her eyes (often on a plate), being tied to a team of oxen, with St. Agatha, or before her judges.
		Her relics lay in Syracuse for hundreds of years, were translated to Constantinople, and then to Venice where they may be venerated at the Church of San Geremia.
	www.fisheaters.com /customsadvent6a.html (795 words)

	Feast of St.Lucy
		Lucy (Santa Lucia) was a young Sicilian girl who vowed to live as a virgin in devotion to Christ.
		Because of the above, St. Lucy is the patron of those with eye problems, and is often depicted carrying her eyes (often on a plate), being tied to a team of oxen, with St. Agatha, or before her judges.
		Her relics lay in Syracuse for hundreds of years, were translated to Constantinople, and then to Venice where they may be venerated at the Church of San Geremia.
	fisheaters.com /customsadvent6a.html (795 words)

	lucy
		Lucy tried several times to persuade her mother that she did not want to marry anyone, and avoided meeting the young man as often as she could.
		Lucy reminded her mother of the story in the Gospels of the woman who was cured of a hemorrhage by touching Christ's cloak.
		Lucy was a pious Sicilian girl who looked on a man lustfully, and in proper remorse plucked out the eyes that had offended to give them to God; and He, in His permissive wisdom, then gave her two more, so that she then had two good ones as well as the two squashy ones.
	www.mrcophth.com /lucy.html (659 words)

	Saint Lucy
		So, here, in the great and splendid Syracuse, city of the antique world, Lucy was born towards the end of the 3rd century, it is taken to be in the year 280, to a wealthy patrician family.
		Lucy's tomb became a place of pilgrimage, prayer and supplication for the people of Syracuse, who implored and obtained abundant graces by the Saints intercession, who was immediately elected patron Saint of the city.
		Lucy was called 'Luminosa', 'full of light', this Grecian inscription, the most antique and precious document that proves the cult offered to Lucy, back from distant ages, as patron saint of eyesight.
	users.libero.it /luigi.scrosoppi/santi/luciaing.htm (5851 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Lucy
		A virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast is celebrated by Latins and Greeks alike on 13 December.
		There she was in fact cured, and Lucy, availing herself of the opportunity, persuaded her mother to allow her to distribute a great part of her riches among the poor.
		The largess stirred the greed of the unworthy youth to whom Lucy had been unwillingly betrothed, and he denounced her to Paschasius, the Governor of Sicily.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09414a.htm (870 words)

	Saint Lucy at AllExperts
		Lucy is the only saint celebrated by the Lutheran Swedes, Finland-Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, in celebrations that retain many pre-Christian elements of a midwinter light festival.
		St Lucy's history is shrouded in darkness: all that is really known for certain is that she was a martyr in Syracuse in Diocletian's persecutions of A.D. Her veneration spread to Rome, so that by the 6th century the whole Church recognized her courage in defense of the faith.
		Now Eutychia had arranged a marriage for Lucy with a pagan bridegroom, but Lucy urged that the dowry be spent on alms that she might retain her virginity.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/saint_lucy.htm (907 words)

	Saint Lucy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Lucy of Syracuse, also known as Saint Lucia, Santa Lucia, or Saint Lukia, (traditional dates 283-304) was a rich young Christian martyr who is venerated as a Saint by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
		Lucy is the only saint celebrated by the Lutheran Swedes, Finland-Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, in celebrations that retain many pre-Christian elements of a midwinter light festival.
		St Lucy's history is shrouded in darkness: all that is really known for certain is that she was a martyr in Syracuse in Diocletian's persecutions of A.D. Her veneration spread to Rome, so that by the 6th century the whole Church recognized her courage in defense of the faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Lucy (1079 words)

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		Lucy was indeed a real martyr, as attested by an early inscription to her discovered in the cemetery of St. John in Syracuse.
		According to the legends, she was born in Syracuse, Sicily, the daughter of noble and wealthy parents, and was raised a Christian.
		The man Lucy was to have married became angry, and he denounced her as a Christian to the governor during the persecutions of Diocletian.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1213.htm (530 words)

	Lucy’s Eggs Short Stories and a Novella by Rick Henry :: Syracuse University Press :: Syracuse New York
		She is a woman who gleans joy from the abundance and beauty of farm life, even though her most heartfelt intimations seem to come in the town cemetery, where one by one the citizens of her village are laid to rest.
		Lucy's Eggs: Short Stories and a Novella is a collection of four stories and a novella, all set in Homer, a town in upstate New York that is both particular and universal in its representation of small-town life.
		Fiercely independent and deeply connected to the land, Lucy endures the loss of her parents, desertion by her husband, and alienation by the "townsfolk." Through Lucy’s blend of strength and vulnerability, Henry powerfully explores issues of individuality, loneliness, and grief.
	www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu /spring-2006/lucy-eggs.html (1259 words)

	Feast of Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia)
		Lucy had few memories of her father, for he died when Lucy was an infant.
		When her mother was healed, Lucy revealed her vow of virginity and asked permission to bestow her fortune on the poor.
		As early as the sixth century, Lucy was honored in Rome as one of the most praiseworthy virgin martyrs, and her name was inserted into the canon of the Mass.
	www.penitents.org /lucy.html (2216 words)

	The Legends of Lucy of Syracuse
		Before the Reformation, Saint Lucy's Day was one of unusual celebration and festivity because, for the people of Sweden and Norway, she was the great "light saint" who turned the tides of their long winter and brought the light of the day to renewed victory.
		Lucy was born in Syracuse, Sicily in 283 A.D., the daughter of wealty parents; her father Roman, her mother Greek.
		Lucy made a secret vow of virginity, but her mother was pressing her to marry a rich unbeliever.
	www.eldrbarry.net /mous/saint/luciaday.htm (1075 words)

	Lucy of Syracuse
		Lucy didn't want to marry at all, and prayed to God for some way to persuade her mother that she didn't have to marry the rich young man.
		When Lucy's mother was miraculously healed, Lucy told her mother about how she had asked God for help so that she wouldn't have to marry.
		Lucy's mother changed her mind, and told Lucy that she didn't have to marry the rich young man. Lucy was very happy.
	members.chello.nl /~l.de.bondt/LucyofSyracuse.htm (402 words)

	Syracuse, Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coordinates: 37°05′N 15°17′E Syracuse (Italian Siracusa, Sicilian Sarausa, Greek Συρακοῦσαι, Latin Syracusae) is an Italian city on the eastern coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse.
		A treaty in 392 allowed Syracuse to enlarge further its possessions, founding the cities of Adrano, Ancona, Adria, Tindari and Tauromenos, and conquering Reggio Calabria on the continent.
		After a period of Vandal rule, Syracuse and the island was recovered by Belisarius for the Byzantine Empire (31 December 535).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syracuse,_Italy (2600 words)

	GALLERY OF SAINTS
		Lucy is one of the three glories of the Church of Sicily; as Catania is immortalized by Agatha, and Palermo by Rosalia, so is Syracuse by Lucy.
		Lucy, a virgin of Syracuse, illustrious by birth and by the Christian faith, which she had professed from her infancy, went to Catania, with her mother Eutychia, who was suffering from a flux of blood, there to venerate the body of the blessed Agatha.
		Lucy then asked her mother that she would permit her to bestow upon the poor of Christ the fortune which she intended to leave her.
	www.catholictradition.org /Saints/lucy.htm (967 words)

	St. Lucy's Day - School of the Seasons
		Lucy is a Sicilian saint, the patroness of Syracuse where she was martyred in the reign of Diocletian.
		Lucy means “light.” Lucina is the Sabine goddess of Light, who was often pictured holding a plate of cakes (later mistaken for eyeballs) and a lamp.
		In honor of a miracle performed by St Lucy during a famine in 1582 (she made a flotilla of grain-bearing ships appear in the harbor — the people were so hungry they boiled and ate the grain without grinding it into flour), Sicilians don't eat anything made with wheat flour on her day.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /lucy.html (783 words)

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		Lucy Webb Hayes was a helpmate during Rutherford’s term as President.
		Two years later Lucy and Rutherford were married in Cincinnati in a simple ceremony on 30 December 1852.
		Her mother was not so single-minded, but an occasion offered itself when Lucy could carry out her generous resolutions.
	www.lycos.com /info/lucy.html (361 words)

	Commemoration of The Holy Martyr Lucy of Syracuse, in Sicily
		O glorious and holy Lucy, the far-famed city of Syracuse honoureth thee as a fragrant lily, adorned with the beauty of virginity, wherewith, and with thy martyrdom, the whole world is perfumed.
		O passion-bearer Lucy, having ascended the ladder of holy virtue, thou didst attain the glorious heights of martyrdom, and now livest where the choirs of all t h e martyrs, the spirits of the righteous and the ranks of the virgins dwell.
		O Word of God, we venerate the holy icon of Thy Virgin Mother holding Thee as a babe in her arms for our sake; and we beseech Thee, that through her intercession we may be counted worthy to cherish the lily of virginity and to glorify Thee among the choirs of virgins.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /servlucy.htm (2905 words)

	Lucy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lucy, Saint (283?-304), Christian virgin martyr, who was highly venerated from the 7th century onward.
		Lucy was born in Syracuse, Sicily, in Italy....
		Stone, Lucy (1818-93), American feminist and abolitionist, born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Oberlin College.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Lucy (94 words)

	Holy Spirit Interactive Kids: A Saint a Day - St. Lucy
		Lucy was the daughter of very noble and rich parents.
		Young Lucy secretly promised Jesus that she would never marry so that she could be his alone.
		Lucy then thought of a plan to win her mother over.
	www.holyspiritinteractive.net /kids/saints/1213.asp (340 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : December 13, 2006 : Lucy
		Lucy made a vow of virginity and distributed her wealth to the poor.
		Child and mother returned to their native city of Syracuse, and Lucy proceeded to distribute the full proceeds from the sale of her property among the poor.
		When a young man, to whom Lucy's parents had promised the virgin's hand against her will, had heard of the development, he reported her to the city prefect as a Christian.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2006-12-13 (747 words)

	St Lucy's Steeple Rebuilt
		As a restoration expert, Williams is accustomed to challenges, and he regards the replacement of St. Lucy's steeple as one of his greatest professional challenges yet: a tricky job, but not an impossible one.
		The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse is still compiling an official estimate of what it will cost to replace the steeple and repair St. Lucy's sanctuary, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
		Lucy's important role in the neighborhood, and the significant damage it suffered moved officials of the group, conservancy president Peg Breen said.
	www.syracusethenandnow.net /Architects/Russel/StLucySteepleRepair.htm (1180 words)

	St Saint Lucy medal medallion in gold
		All we really know for certain is that this brave woman lived in Syracuse, Sicily and lost her life in the persecution of Christians in the early fourth century.
		Lucy devised a plan to convince her mother that Christ was a much more powerful partner for life.
		As much as the facts of St. Lucy's specific case are unknown, we know that many Christians suffered incredible torture and a painful death for their faith during Diocletian's reign.
	www.patriotic-jewelry.com /st-lucy-medal.htm (548 words)

	LUCYFEST/ THE QUEEN OF LIGHTS / FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
		Lucy's lore survived the Reformation and calendar reform, which brought the solstice to December 23.
		One account of the lussikatter (Lucy cats) or the golden saffron rolls that are served by Lucia is that they were devil's cats which she subdued, and the cats were pictured at her feet.
		Beginning Yuletide with lighting a candle and greeting Lucy, or the Queen of Light, would certainly be appropriate for modern heathen families who are seeking to re-establish the old customs and welcome the gods and goddesses of old back into their homes as well as ancestral spirits who accompany them on their rounds.
	www.serve.com /shea/germusa/lucia.htm (2009 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profiles: Saint Lucy
		Saint Lucy is invoked as the patron of eye ailments and of light, possibly because her name suggests 'light.' Sometimes, she is portrayed holding two eyes in a dish.
		Born in Syracuse, a city in Sicily, early in the fourth century, Lucy was the child of wealthy Christian parents.
		Lucy used various designs to avoid complying with this planned marriage, and to persuade her mother to break the engagement.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19971201/SAINTS/STLUCY.HTM (1465 words)

	Panthers run out of chances, lose to Syracuse in second OT
		Problem is, they make it only so far before the Lucy in Syracuse yanks the football away from the Charlie Brown in the University of Pittsburgh Panthers.
		The first time, a pass to R.J. English was nullified by penalties against Syracuse for pass interference and Pitt for an ineligible receiver downfield.
		Tyree, the backup Syracuse receiver, having beaten Pitt cornerback Tutu Ferguson, hauled in the pass and completed the 65-yard touchdown play with 5:36 remaining in the half.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/pitt/20001008pitt2.asp (1076 words)

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