Lucy means light. Saint Lucy, also known as Saint Lucia or Saint Lukia is the patron saint of the blind. Born to rich and noble parents in Syracuse, Sicily, in the year 283 AD she lost her Roman ...

St. Lucy of Syracuse is considered a powerful ... This devotion to her as the Patron Saint of those with visual disabilities or eye diseases comes from an ancient tradition that tells how, as ...

Saint Lucy lived in Syracuse, and was martyred in AD 304: her martyrdom included the gouging out of her eyes. As a result she became the patron saint of people suffering from eye infections, impaired ...

But, when her lifeless body was being prepared for burial, her eyes miraculously reappeared. For this reason, Lucy is the patron saint of the blind. Her story quickly became famous, references to her ...