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Holy Virgin Martyr Lucy 12/26/2013
Lucy went with her mother to visit the tomb of Saint Agatha in Catania, where Saint Agatha appeared to her. Her mother, afflicted with an incurable issue of blood, was miraculously cured in the church. Lucy distributed all her possessions to the poor, which greatly embittered her fiancé who denounced her as a Christian to the Governor Paschasius. The pitiless Governor ordered her to be taken to a brothel to be ravished. By God’s will she became immovable as a rock and numerous people could not budge her an inch. . In the end, one of the enraged pagans struck his sword in her throat and thus she gave up her soul to God. She suffered in the year 304.
