Song of the
Day: Santa Lucia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6gki4qwPA
(Watch and see who is that rowing the boat?)
Santa Lucia by Andrea Bocelli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJz3if-_JUc
Santa Lucia by the Three Tenors - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwYcS3oekNs
Santa Lucia by Enrico Caruso - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebrnxY0Fuw
Saint of the day: ST. LUCY /
LUCIA OF SYRACUSE
St. Lucia of Syracuse (283–304) was born to a wealthy Christian
family. Her father died when she was an infant. At a young age she secretly
consecrated her virginity to Christ. Her mother pressured her into an arranged
marriage with a pagan, which Lucy avoided. Her mother was struck with a long
illness, and received a cure only after going with Lucy to pray at the tomb of
St. Agatha. It was then that Lucy told her mother of her vow, gaining her
mother's consent. However, upon finding that Lucy was a Christian, the man whom
she was to marry had her imprisoned under the persecutions of Diocletian. The
judge sentenced her to a brothel, but God rendered her body immovable. They
tried to set her on fire, but the wood would not burn. Finally, she was killed
by the sword. Among
her tortures her eyes were gouged out, making St. Lucy the patron saint of eye
problems and blind people, among others. St. Lucy is among the greatest of the virgin
martyrs and her name appears in the Canon of the Mass. St. Lucy's feast day is
December 13th.
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