SAINTS IN THE CHRISTIAN CALENDAR
Nine Things You Most Likely Didn’t Know About St Lucy
Her commemoration is every year on December 13th
The Christian calendar is unusually thinly populated with saints during December — mainly because those who compiled the calendar of saints wanted to leave the coast clear for Christmas.
But St Lucy is an exception. Her day is December 13th — we’ll explain the reasons for that later.
I think St Lucy is rather unfortunate to be often overlooked amid the Advent season. So, let’s settle back and learn the top 9 things YOU might not know about her.
1. She was a young Christian in the Third Century.
Lucy was born in 283 in the Syracuse area to wealthy Roman parents. Her father appears to have been a Roman nobleman, and her mother, Eutychia, was Greek. Lucy’s father died when she was five years old, leaving Lucy and her mother to fend for themselves.
A tough upbringing in any era…
Lucy had been a Christian since childhood, which was difficult — if not downright risky — in pagan Rome. She was aware as a young girl that she would be expected to marry and that a dowry would be set aside for her.
