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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]
[a] The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the remembrance of the saints has three parts: thanksgiving to God, the strengthening our faith, and the imitation of the saints' holy living. [b] [3] As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year.
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia ... Euskia was a 25-year-old woman who died on St Lucy’s Day in the late 300s or ... Archived from the original on ...
Daniela Owusu (born c. 2004) is a Finnish woman who portrayed Saint Lucy in Finland's national Saint Lucy's Day celebrations in 2024. She was elected by the public and coronated in a ceremony at Helsinki Cathedral. Owusu, who is of Finnish and Ghanaian descent, was the country's first
Meaning after the death of Lucy. So, "at the time of Saint Lucy's death," the date of the birth of Christ was not yet decided. Further, "at the time of Saint Lucy's death," the ROMAN Julian calendar was used, not the later Christian one. This calendar was longer than the astronomical year, and hence astronomical events would not fall on the ...
23 April Saint George; ... 1 November All Saints' Day 2 November All Souls' Day 3 November Richard Hooker ... 13 December Saint Lucy;
2 *Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishops, Teachers of the Faith, 379 and 389; 2 Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Spiritual Guide, 1833; 2 Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, Bishop in South India, Evangelist, 1945; 6 The Epiphany – may be celebrated on the Sunday between 2 and 8 January; 10 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645
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