No
one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not
pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so
make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the
sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all
things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a
twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my
will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen
to me.
– Saint
Lucy of Syracuse
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She is one of eight women who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary,
are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.
Saint
Lucy of Syracuse's patronage:
Against hemorrhages; authors; blind people; blindness;
cutlers; dysentery; eye disease; eye problems; glaziers; hemorrhages;
laborers; martyrs; peasants; Perugia, Italy; saddlers; salesmen;
stained glass workers; Syracuse, Sicily; throat infections; writers.
