Prayer to Saint Lucy: A Novena For Help, Blessing and Thanksgiving

Prayer To Saint Lucy
A Novena

The faithful offer prayer to Saint Lucy, the virgin and martyr of Syracuse, Sicily became known as a patron of those afflicted with hemorrhagic illness. She is also the patron saint of the blind and those with eye-trouble.

Saint Lucy! is the patron saint of the blind. The name Lucy, which means "light", is rooted from the Latin word that means "lucid," which means, basically "suffused with light, clear, understandable."

History:
Her life story, however, is far from clear.

According to tradition, Saint Lucy was born of a rich and noble family in the year 283 in Syracuse, Sicily. Her father died when she was young.

She became solely dependent on her mother, Eutychia, who was suffering from hemorrhagic illness, arranged for her to marry a pagan named Paschasius.

Growing up a Christian Lucy vowed her life to God, and was able to put the marriage on hold for 3 years.

At that time Lucy became aware the fame of the virgin-martyr St. Agatha, who was known to cure illnesses. She persuaded her mother to make a pilgrimage to St. Agatha’s relics at Catania, about 50 miles from Syracuse.

Eutychia was cured, and Lucy persuaded her mother to allow her to distribute a great part of her riches among the poor. She was also rejected her bridegroom to devote her life to God.

Having been rejected, Paschasius denounced Lucy as Christian.

When the governor sent guards to fetch for her they could not move her even when they hitched her to a team of oxen.

The governor ordred her death instead and she was set on fire. Again, God interceded and she was saved. Lucy was later executed by stabbing with a dagger.

Tradition tells of Lucy’s eyes being gouged but God restored her eyesight before her death.

To learn more about Saint Lucy or your favorite saint, please read:
More on Saint Lucy in Lucy's Eyes and Margaret's Dragon by Giselle Potter

Lives of the Saints You Should Know by Margaret R. Bunson, Matthew E. Bunson

New Illustrated Book of Saints

Prayer To Saint Lucy
(Feast – December 13)
SAINT LUCY,
Whose beautiful name
Signifies light, By the light of Faith
Which God bestowed upon you,
Increase and preserve
His light in my soul,
So that I may avoid evil,
Be zealous in the performance
Of good works,
And abhor nothing
So much as the blindness
And the darkness
Of evil and sin.

Obtain for me,
By your intercession
With God,
Perfect vision
For my bodily eyes
And the grace to use them
For God’s greater honor
And glory
And the salvation of souls.

St. Lucy,
Virgin and martyr,
Hear my prayers
And obtain my petitions.

Amen.

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Prayer To Saint Lucy A Novena

Prayer To Saint Lucy
A Novena