A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lucy, St.

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LUCY, ST.,

A virgin martyr, born at Syracuse. She refused to marry a young man who addressed her, because she had determined to devote herself to religion, and, to prevent his importunities, she gave her whole fortune to the poor. Enraged at this, the young man accused her, before Paschasius the heathen judge, of professing Christianity, and Lucy was put to death by him, in 305.