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Prayer: Relying on Your goodness, O God, we humbly ask You, through the intercession of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, to give perfect vision to our eyes, that they may serve for Your greater honor and glory. Saint Lucy, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions.
Chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions- Bernardino of Siena; Invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye - Hemma of Gurk; Childbirth, sickness - Juliana of Nicomedia; Women in difficult labor - John of Bridlington; Difficult pregnancy and safe child birth - Peter and Fevronia of Murom
Lucia of Syracuse (c. 283 – 304 AD), also called Saint Lucia (Latin: Sancta Lucia) and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic , Anglican , Lutheran , Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christianity.
These fasts traditionally take place on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of the weeks following St Lucy's Day (13 December), the first Sunday in Lent, Pentecost (Whitsun), and Holy Cross Day (14 September), though some areas follow a different pattern. Ordination ceremonies are often held on Ember Saturdays or the following Sunday.
Odile of Alsace, also known as Odilia and Ottilia, born c. 662 - c. 720 at Mont Sainte-Odile), is a saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. She is a patroness saint of good eyesight and of the region of Alsace. Saint Odile is commemorated with a feast day on 13 December [2] and on 14 December in Alsace ...
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In 1955 Angelo Roncalli, future Pope John XXIII and then Patriarch of Venice, had a silver mask put on the saint's face to protect it from dust. The saint's body was stolen on November 7, 1981, but was restored in December of the same year without any ransom. The police discovered the relics outside Venice in a nylon bag on her Feastday, Dec. 13.
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