“You obey your masters' laws, and I shall obey the laws of my God. You fear your masters and I fear God. You are careful not to offend them, I take pains not to offend God. You want to please them, I wish to please Christ. Do then what you think will be of benefit to you, and I shall do what I think is good for me”
#SaintLucy

#ChristianWomen #Christianity #CatholicSaint

Lucy then fell asleep, and had a vision of Agatha standing surrounded by angels and adorned with precious stones, and Agatha said to her: "My sister Lucy, virgin consecrated to God, why do you ask me for something that you yourself can do for your mother? Indeed, your faith has already cured her." Lucy, awakening, said to her mother: "Mother, you are healed!”

- The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints
By Jacobus de Voragine
#Christianity #SaintLucy #ChristianWomen #AdventSeason #SaintAgatha

I asked the AI chatGPT to write a #GregorianChant about #SaintLucy #SantaLucia and this is what it came up with:

Sancta Lucia, virgo martyr,
Lux et splendor mundi,
Tu lucem mentibus infudisti,
Et tenebras pellisti.

Ora pro nobis, sancta Lucia,
Ut in tenebris lucem videamus,
Et a mortis periculo liberati,
In caelis cum Christo regnemus.

Gloria Patri, et Filio,
Et Spiritui Sancto,
Sicut erat in principio,
Et nunc, et semper,
Et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

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Saint Lucy, virgin martyr,
Light and splendor of the world,
You infused light into our minds,
And chased away the darkness.

Pray for us, Saint Lucy,
That in the darkness we may see the light,
And, freed from the danger of death,
We may reign with Christ in heaven.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
And to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning,
And now, and always,
And for ages of ages. Amen.

#Christianity #ChristianSaints #ChristianWomen I think this AI chat mostly is not great tbh but I thought this request turned out pretty good!

RT @GaEstensi@twitter.com

Today is #SaintLucy !
Devotion to this virgin of Syracuse origin is widespread and this has also made her a favourite subject for painting.
She is often depicted while suffering martyrdom or in rich robes holding a plate with eyes 👀...

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GaEstensi/status/1602687336235638784

The whole Saint Lucy's Day poem is reproduced in our ancient Tumblr Advent Calendar. https://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/post/135735852252/an-nyrb-advent-day-22-a-nocturnal-upon-st

#saintlucy #wintersolstice #johndonne #renaissancepoetry #johnwilliams

For #StLucysDay a detail of #Crivelli’s Saints Anthony Abbot & Lucy, c. 1470.

St Lucy holds her own eyes before her, an attribute variously associated with the brutality of her martyrdom or an act of self mutilation to dissuade a suitor.

The Scandinavian tradition of wearing a crown of light on her feast day connects to a different story, in which she wore a wreath of candles to carry supplies to Roman Christians hiding in the catacombs.

#SaintLucy #SanctaLucia #Midwinter

Our #Winterlude shenanigans continue with the arrival of the latest shenanigator #SaintLucy / #SantaLucia whose Day it is today. Winterlude Corner is beginning to look like quite the party.

#BjornWiinblad

Up way too early (04:25) to send off the eldest offspring to participate with the choir on national television. Performing Sct. Lucy
https://www.facebook.com/go.tv2.dk/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy
#sctlucy #sanktalucia #saintlucy