DECEMBER 13, 2016
8:45 AM ORDINARY FORM MASS (4TH GRADE)
St. Lucy was born in 283 in Syracuse on the Island of Sicily.
She was known for going into the catacombs with food to feed the Christians hiding from persecution.
She wanted to live her life for Christ as a consecrated virgin, and give her dowry to the poor.
Her fiance turned her in to the Roman authorities who tried to sell her into slavery. But the chains didn't hold her, and 50 men and horses couldn't move her.
So they tried to burn her alive, but the fire wouldn't stay lit.
They cut out her eyes in a terrible act of cruelty, but immediately her eyes were restored!
God is more powerful than any other worldly power.
They finally killed her with a sword, and she died in 304 at the age of 21.
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