Lucy or Lucia is one of the seven women martyrs mentioned by name in the Roman Canon, the First Eucharistic Prayer. She and her connection with Agatha, who immediately precedes her in that list, is ...

On the feast day of St. Lucy, Dec. 13, Pope Francis said that “we need women’s work and their word in a Church that reaches out that it may be leaven and light in the culture and in our lives together ...

I imagine the Roman governor responsible for the martyrdom of St. Lucy thought little enough of her execution at the time. She was just one more inconsequential Christian woman, killed in 304 during ...