Saint Lucia of Syracuse, His holiday in the West is December 13, according to the unreformed Julian calendar, the longest night of the year; she is the patron saint of blindness. She is one of the seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorated by her name in the Canon of the Mass, there are currently many prayers in his honor.
Lucia means “light,” with the same Latin root, lux. Ironically, Saint Lucia’s history is shrouded in obscurity: all that is known for certain is that he was a martyr in Syracuse, Italy, during the Diocletian persecutions in AD 304. C. her veneration spread to Rome, so that in the sixth century the entire Church recognized her courage in defending the faith.
Because people wanted to shed light on Lucia’s bravery, legends grew, reportedly in the Act being associated with her name. All details are conventional, also associated with other female martyrs of the early fourth century.
Her Roman father died when she was young, leaving her and her mother without a guardian to protect her. His mother, Eutychia, had suffered four years with a “bloody issue,” but Lucia, having heard the fame of Saint Agatha, the patroness of Catania, “and when they were at a mass, a gospel was read that mentioned a woman who she had been healed of the bloody discharge (dysentery) by touching the hem of the tunic of Jesus Christ”, which, according to the Golden Legend, convinced her mother to pray together at the tomb of Saint Agatha.
They stayed up all night praying, until they fell asleep, exhausted. Saint Agatha appeared in a vision to Lucia and told her: «Soon you will be the glory of Syracuse, as I am of Catania». In that instant, Eutychia was cured.
Eutychia had arranged a marriage for Lucia to a pagan groom, but Lucia urged that the dowry be spent on alms so she could keep her virginity. Euthychia suggested that the sums would make a good bequest, but Lucia replied: “…everything you give at the moment of death for the Lord you give because you cannot take it with you.
Give now to the true Saviour, while you are healthy, whatever you want to give at your death.” The news that the estate and jewels were being distributed reached the ears of Lucia’s fiancé, who learned from a chatty nurse that Lucia had found a more noble boyfriend.
Her spurned pagan groom denounced Lucia as a Christian to magistrate Pasquasius, who ordered her to burn a sacrifice in the Emperor’s image. Lucia replied that she had given all that she had of hers: “I offer her myself, let her do what she pleases with her offering.” Sentenced to be desecrated in a brothel, Lucía stated:
No one’s body is polluted to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you raised my hand to your idol and made me offer it against my will, I would still be innocent in the eyes of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things.
If now, against my will, you contaminate me, a double purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that can’t happen to me.
Christian tradition says that when the guards came to take her away they found her so full of the Holy Spirit that she was stiff and heavy as a mountain; they couldn’t move it even when they harnessed it to a team of oxen.
Even with a dagger to his throat he prophesied against his persecutor. As a final torture, his eyes were gouged out. Miraculously he could still see without his eyes. In paintings and statues, Saint Lucia is frequently shown holding her eyes on a gold plate. She is the patron saint of the blind, in her honor when a person has an eye disease it is customary pray your prayers.
Next prayer to Santa Lucia, the patron saint of blind and of people with eye problems.
Prayer to Saint Lucy of Syracuse
Dear Sicilian Virgin and martyr, whom the Church remembers in Eucharistic Prayer I, you courageously rejected great promises and withstood various threats by remaining faithful to your beloved Lord.
So now we implore your help on behalf of (name of patient). We also ask you to teach us to imitate you and to avoid spiritual blindness of any kind. Amen.
Prayer to Santa Lucia, for eye problems
Trusting in your goodness, O God, we humbly ask you, through the intercession of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, that you give perfect vision to our eyes, so that they serve for your greatest honor and glory. Saint Lucia, listen to our prayers and obtain our requests. Amen.
Prayer to Saint Lucia to free us from evil
O God, our Creator and Redeemer, mercifully hear my prayers so that by venerating your servant Saint Lucia, for the light of faith that you have given her, you increase and preserve this same light in my soul, so that you free me from evil, and help me to do good and hate nothing but blindness and the darkness of evil and sin.
Trusting in your goodness, I humbly ask you, through the prayers that you be the intercessor of your servant Saint Lucia, that you give a perfect vision to my eyes, so that they serve for your greatest honor and glory and for the salvation of my soul in this world, so that I can enjoy your light in the paradise of God our Lord. Saint Lucia, virgin and martyr, listen to my prayers and fulfill what I ask of you. Amen.
Saint Lucia, whose beautiful name means light, in the light of faith, which God bestowed on you, increase and preserve its light in my soulto avoid evil, be zealous in the performance of good works, and I hate nothing so much as blindness and darkness from evil and sin.
Obtain for me, by your intercession with God, perfect vision for my bodily eyes and the grace to use them For the greater honor of God and glory and the salvation of souls. Saint Lucia, virgin and martyr, listen to my prayers and help me to obtain what I ask of you. Amen.
Novena prayer to Saint Lucia, Protector of the eyes
The Novena Prayer to Saint Lucia must be pronounced for nine consecutive days.
Let us pray to Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia, you who preferred to let your eyes gouged out instead of denying the faith and desecrating your soul; and God, through a miracle, replaced them with another pair of healthy eyes to reward your virtue and your faith, announcing you as the protector of eye diseases. I come to you to beg you to protect my sight and heal the disease that I am suffering from in my eyes.
Let’s pray…
Oh Saint Lucia, help me keep the light in my eyes so that I can see the beauties of God’s creation, the brightness of the sun, the color of the flowers and the smile of children.
Also keep the eyes of my soul, faith, through which I can know my God, understand his teachings, recognize his love for me and never lose the path that leads me to where you, Saint Lucia, can find yourself. in the company of angels and saints. Powerful Saint Lucia, I beg you to protect my eyes and preserve my faith. Amen.
Pray:
- 3 Our Father
- 3 Hail Mary
- 3 Glory
Let us pray in honor of the patron saint of blindness
Oh! Glorious Saint Lucia, Virgin and Martyr, you greatly glorified the Lord by preferring to sacrifice your life instead of being unfaithful. Come to our aid and, for the love of this most loving Lord, save us from all diseases of the eyes and from the danger of losing them.
Through your powerful intercession, may we spend our lives in the peace of the Lord and may we see him with our transfigured eyes in the eternal splendor of the Heavenly Homeland. Amen.
Prayers to Saint Lucia to have a perfect vision
Trusting in your goodness, O God, we humbly ask you, through the intercession of Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr, to give our eyes perfect vision, so that they serve for your greatest honor and glory. Saint Lucia, listen to our prayers and obtain our requests. Amen
Miraculous prayer to Saint Lucia
Get for me, through your intercession with God, perfect vision for my bodily eyes and the grace to use them for the greater honor and glory of God and the salvation of souls. Saint Lucia, virgin and martyr, hear my prayers and obtain my requests. Amen.