Martyr
Holy Martyr Lucia (lucy) the Virgin
December 13 Old CalendarDecember 26 New Calendar
Life
Lucia with her mother visited the tomb of Saint Agatha in Catania, where Saint Agatha appeared to her. Her mother, who suffered from hemorrhage, was then miraculously healed in the church. Lucia distributed all her property to the poor, which embittered her betrothed, who denounced her to the judge Paschasius as a Christian. The evil judge ordered that she be taken to a brothel to be defiled. But by God's power she became immovable as if nailed to the ground, and a multitude of people could not move her from the spot. Then a certain enraged pagan stabbed a sword into her throat, and she gave up her soul to God and passed into the eternal kingdom. She suffered in the year 304.
But by God's power she became immovable as if nailed to the ground, and a multitude of people could not move her from the spot.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, December 13. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on December 13
The full reading for December 13 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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