lucy, killed with a dagger through her throat

NOTE: this is a true story that happened in the fourth century.

once upon a time,  a sweet, pretty girl was born in sycruse, sicily. that was in the year c.283, and she was called lucy (picture). she came from a rich christian pious family of greek ancestry. from a young age, lucy had vowed to devote her life to god.

now one day, lucy’s mother arranged a marriage for her to a pagan, not knowing lucy’s devotion to god. well, lucy managed to keep the marriage on hold for 3 years. wanting to change her mother’s mind, to let her off from marriage, since she had decided to give her life to god, lucy prayed at the tomb of saint agatha to cure her mother’s long-time haemorrhagic illness. one day, yes her mother’s illness was cured and her mother was very grateful and began to agree with lucy’s desire to live for god (thus canceling the marriage).

however, her groom to be, named paschasius was mad. don’t say hell hath no fury like a woman scorn, please. paschasius, a man, was full of fury, realising he had had been scorned by lucy. so what did he do? he denounced lucy as a christian to the governor of sicily. now, during those days, it was wrong to be a christian and christians will be persecuted. so, the governor had poor lucy arrested.

since lucy was such a lovely young lady (she was 21 at that time), the governor forced her into prostitution. the guards who came to fetch her, could not move her at all, even when they tied a team of oxen to her. angry, the governor, ordered her to be killed instead. she was tortured before being killed, like having her eyes torn out. they  try to kill her by setting fire on her. they surround her with bundles of wood which was set afire… but miraculously, the fire went out.  finally, she was executed by being stabbed to death at her throat with a dagger.

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that, my dear, is the story of my patron saint, st lucy. basically by ‘patron saint’ means the saint dedicated to a certain cause. in this case, st lucy is the patron saint of the blind/eye trouble. this means when we have some eye problem, we can bring our prayers to st lucy, who will intercede for us to jesus.

the story of st. lucy (story above taken from this link but with my own words).  the feast of st lucy falls on 13 dec, which is today. so that means, today is my feast-day, so you can wish me "happy feast-day."  🙂

btw, lucia is the italian equivalent to lucy. ‘lucia’ was given to me by my godmother when i was baptised (when i was a few months old baby), and i had been using it all along in school and at work. the name ‘lucy’ means ‘bringer of light’.

 another site that tells the story of st. lucy, mentioned the story as a legend and could or could not be true.

although we do not celebrate feast-days (like how we celebrate birthdays, christmas, easter) but if we remember each other’s feast day, we do wish each other ‘happy feast-day’.  and in my house, during the feast-days of my sister or me, my mum will do some special cooking for us! today is no exception of course. knowing how i love prawns to death, my mum had bought big prawns to cook for me (see picture the prawns my mum cooked )… thus i’m sorry to say that as greed got the better of me, i had to give the ‘light of justice’ night in penang a miss. it’s not everyday i have big prawns to enjoy!