- According to legend, she converted to Christianity after an angel appeared to her, dedicated her virginity to God and was denounced to the Romans by the man she was engaged to.

-Lucy secretly promised Jesus that she would never marry so that she could be his alone.
-The pagan judge tried to send the saint to a house of sinful women. He hoped that Lucy might be tempted to give up Christ. But when they tried to carry her away, God made her body so heavy that they could not move her even with a team of oxen.
-She was surrounded with bundles of wood which they set on fire, but the fire went out. In the end, she was stabbed and became a martyr for Jesus in the year 304.

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