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An inscription in Syracuse dedicated to Euskia mentioning St. Lucy's Day as a local feast dates back to the fourth century A.D., which states "Euskia, the irreproachable, lived a good and pure life for about 25 years, died on my Saint Lucy's feast day, she for whom I cannot find appropriate words of praise: she was a Christian, faithful, perfection itself, full of thankfulness and gratitude". [9]
Euskia was a 25-year-old woman who died on St Lucy’s Day in the late 300s or early 400s. [10] By the sixth century, her story was sufficiently widespread that she appears in the procession of virgins in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna [ 11 ] and in the Sacramentary of Pope Gregory I . [ 6 ]
She is one of eight women (including the Virgin Mary) explicitly commemorated by Catholics in the Canon of the Mass. Her traditional feast day, known in Europe as Saint Lucy's Day, is observed by Western Christians on 13 December. Lucia of Syracuse was honored in the Middle Ages and remained a well-known saint in early modern England.
Daniela Owusu (born 9.2.2004) is a Finnish woman who portrayed Saint Lucy in Finland's national Saint Lucy's Day celebrations in 2024. She was elected by the public and coronated in a ceremony at Helsinki Cathedral. Owusu, who is of Finnish and Ghanaian descent, was the country's first
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Saint Lucy. 13 Lucy, martyr, 304 (Commemoration) R; 14 John of the Cross, renewer of the church, 1591 (Commemoration) W – ELCA; 15; 16; 17 Daniel and the Three Young Men, prophets, (Commemoration) R – LCMS; 18; 19 Adam and Eve, patriarch and matriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
There were women disciples at the foot of the cross. Women were reported to be the first witnesses to the resurrection, chief among them was Mary Magdalene. She was not only "witness", but also called a "messenger" of the risen Christ. [3] St Paul Speaking to The Women of Philippi (Stradanus, 1582)
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All at the table were men. During the meal a woman known as "a sinner" entered the room and anointed Jesus's feet with her tears and with some ointment. Her tears fell upon his feet and she wiped them with her hair. The Bible does not say whether she had encountered Jesus in person prior to this. Neither does the Bible disclose the nature of ...