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An inscription in Syracuse dedicated to Euskia mentioning St. Lucy's Day as a local feast dates back to the fourth century A.D., which states "Euskia, the irreproachable, lived a good and pure life for about 25 years, died on my Saint Lucy's feast day, she for whom I cannot find appropriate words of praise: she was a Christian, faithful, perfection itself, full of thankfulness and gratitude". [9]
The Church of St. Lucy. The Church of St. Lucy (Croatian: Crkva svete Lucije) in Jurandvor near Baška, Krk, Croatia is a Romanesque Catholic church from the year 1100 with two major medieval Croatian artifacts: the Baška Tablet, [1] and a checkerboard-pattern carving on the bell tower that is suspected to be one of the first instances of the Croatian coat of arms.
St. Lucia d'Albona (Italian: Santa Lucia, Croatian: Sveta Lucija) is a small church (on the basis of a big chapel) in the hamlet of Skitaca, Istria County Croatia. The chapel was named after the patron saint of Syracuse , Sicily , Santa Lucia or Saint Lucy .
St. Lucia's Wreath (Scandinavia) The Feast of St. Lucia (or St. Lucy's Day) kicks off the advent season in Scandinavian traditions. According to legend, when Christians were still a persecuted ...
Euskia was a 25-year-old woman who died on St Lucy’s Day in the late 300s or early 400s. [10] By the sixth century, her story was sufficiently widespread that she appears in the procession of virgins in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna [ 11 ] and in the Sacramentary of Pope Gregory I . [ 6 ]
Lutzelfrau (German: [ˈlʊtsl̩ˌfʁaʊ]) is a witch in German folklore who gives gifts — particularly apples, nuts and dried plums — to children on Saint Lucy's Day (December 13). [1] Lutzelfrau customs are also common in Slovenia and Croatia, where a "dark Luz" was contrasted to the Christian saint. [1]
I wish you a good Christmas Eve and Adam and Eve [feast day] (Faljen Isus! Čestita vam badnja večer i Adam i Eva). In the Croatian Catholic calendar, December 24 is the feast day of Adam and Eve. The log is placed on the porch and is not brought into the house until the evening. When evening comes, the badnjak log is placed in the hearth.
The Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor. The tablet was discovered on 15 September 1851 by Petar Dorčić during paving of the Church of St. Lucy in Jurandvor near the village of Baška on the island of Krk. [2] Already then a small part of it was broken. [2] Since 1934, the original tablet has been kept at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ...