See also:

• LUCIA (or LucY), ST

LUCIA (or See also:

• LUCY, RICHARD DE (d. 1179)

LucY), ST  , virgin and See also:

• MARTYR (Gr. pimp or µaprvs)

martyr of See also:

• SYRACUSE
• SYRACUSE (Gr. Mvpaaovoat; Lat. Syracusae, Ital. Siracusa)

Syracuse, whose name figures in the See also:

• CANON

canon of the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass, and whose festival is celebrated on the 13th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December . According to the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, she lived in the reign of See also:

• DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)
• DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

Diocletian . Her See also:

• MOTHER

mother, having been miraculously cured of an illness at the See also:

• SEPULCHRE, CANONS REGULAR OF THE HOLY
• SEPULCHRE, EASTER
• SEPULCHRE, THE HOLY

sepulchre of St See also:

• AGATHA, SAINT

Agatha in See also:

• CATANIA (Gr. Katane, Rom. Catinal)

Catania, was persuaded by See also:

• LUCIA (or LucY), ST

Lucia to distribute all her See also:

• WEALTH

wealth to the poor . The youth to whom the daughter had been betrothed forthwith denounced her to Pascasius, the See also:

• PREFECT (prefet)

prefect, who ordered that she should be taken away and subjected to shameful See also:

• OUTRAGE (through O. Fr. ultrage, oltrage, oultrage, from Lat. ultra, beyond, exceeding, cf. Ital. oltraggio; the meaning has been influenced by connexion with " rage," anger)

outrage . But it was found that no force which could be applied was able to move her from the spot on which she stood; even boiling oil and burning See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch had no See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to hurt her, until at last she was slain with the See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword . The most important documents concerning St See also:

• LUCY, RICHARD DE (d. 1179)

Lucy are the mention in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum and the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient inscription discovered at Syracuse, in which her festival is indicated . Many paintings represent her bearing her eyes in her See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand or on a See also:

• SALVER

salver . Some artists have even represented her See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind, but nothing in her Acta justifies this See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation . It is probable that it originated in a See also:

• PLAY

play upon words (Lucia, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. lux, See also:

• LIGHT

light), just as St Clair is invoked in cases of See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye-disease . See O . Caietanus, Vitae sanctorum Siculorum, i . 114-12I (See also:

• PALERMO (Greek, Havopuos; Latin, Panhormus, Panormus)

Palermo, 1657) ; loannes de Ioanne, Acta sincera sanctae Luciae (Palermo, 1758) ; Analecta Bollandiana, xxii .

492; Cahier, Caracteristiques See also:

• DES

des See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints, i. See also:

• TOY
• TOY, CRAWFORD HOWELL (1836– )

toy (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1867) . (H .