The name Lucy shares its origins with the word lux, Latin for light, so it’s no coincidence her feast day coincides with the darkest time of the year
St Lucy was a virgin martyr in fourth-century Sicily. And according to one version of her story, she had beautiful eyes.
X-rays of his picture show that he originally portrayed her as headless, which may not have suited local ambitions to promote the cult. Her head was restored in his finished version, with a sword wound on her throat to show how she died. As well as falling on a Friday in 2024, with the usual ominous associations, December 13th will have Ireland’s earliest sunset .
Up late on the eve of December 13th, he was oppressed by the surrounding dark: “Tis the year’s midnight and it is the day’s/ Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks.” “The world’s whole sap is sunk;/ The general balm th’ hydroptic earth hath drunk,/ Whither, as to the bed’s-feet, life is shrunk,/ Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, /Compared with me, who am their epitaph.”
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