St. Lucy Medal and Necklace

Sterling Silver St. Lucy Medal and Necklace

14KT Gold Filled St. Lucy Medal and Necklace

14KT Gold St Lucy Medal

St. Lucy Medal

St. Lucy was born in Syracuse, Sicily, of wealthy, honorable Christian parents. However, at the age of fourteen she was betrothed by them to a young pagan nobleman. Lucy endeavored in every way to prevent the marriage as she had already given her heart to God. Finally, her mother was stricken with a grievous disease, under which she languished for four years, and no physician was found able to help her.

Lucy urged her mother to visit the tomb of St. Agatha (in Catania, Sicily,) who, in 251, suffered a most cruel martyrdom. Lucy accompanied her mother to the tomb. Through her prayers and those of St. Agatha, she obtained the cure of her mother. Lucy then told her of the promise she had made to God, and begged to be allowed to fulfill it and to sell all her possessions in order to give them in alms to the poor. Her mother, in gratitude for her cure, consented. When the young nobleman to whom Lucy had been betrothed, heard of this, he was enraged and went immediately to Pascasius, the Governor, and denounced her as a Christian.

Virgin Martyr

Pascasius ordered Lucy to be brought before him, and commanded her to sacrifice to the gods. When she refused, he ordered her to be taken to a place of shame and treated with indignity. When the wicked men attempted to seize her and drag her away by force, the maiden suddenly became, by the power of God, immovable. The more they tried to move her, the more firmly she stood before them. In his rage, Pascasius ordered a fire kindled around her. Seeing that she was unharmed, one of the servants thrust a sword through her throat, and of this wound God was pleased to let her die.

It is not related in her Acts how or when she suffered the loss of her eyes, but most careful historians mention this as one of her grievous torments. St. Lucy is invoked by those who wish to preserve the precious gift of sight. After her death the Christians took her body and buried it at the very place where she had suffered with such constancy, and a church was erected there afterwards bearing her name.

St. Lucy suffered martyrdom on December 13, 304, the same year in which St. Agnes gave up her young life for Christ; and the Virgin-Martyrs have come down together through the ages, both in the Canon of the Mass, in which are invoked by name, and, also, in the Litany of the Saints, where with St. Cecilia, St. Catherine and St. Agatha, they shine as the five wise virgins who took the oil of divine love in their lamps and went joyfully forth to meet their celestial Bridegroom.
St. Lucy Rosary
UPC: 617759985849
Brand: Bliss