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St Lucy facts for confirmation?
I would just like to check that St Lucy is the patron saint of authors/writers. I choose her because i love writing and i write all the time. May i please have some facts about her such as;
-when she was born
-when she died
- why she was canonized
-how she died - if she was a martyr
- any facts about her life that can be used in the report
What do you have to include within the saint report for confirmation
Many thanks
4 Answers
- Zog BlasterLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
There is no standard "saint report for confirmation", so what you have to include will depend on what you've been asked to write. When I was Confirmed, I didn't have to give any information about my saint at all, except her name.
Anyway, assuming you mean the famous St Lucy, patron of the blind, then yes she is the patron saint of writers. She's a 4th century virgin martyr, and as such we don't have a lot of reliable information about her.
You might want to start with Wikipedia, at least the information box at the top right of the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Lucy
And here: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=...
And here: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09414a.htm
Because she's such an early saint, she was recognised as a saint long before there was a system in place to "officially" canonise saints. As such, she was added to local martyrologies (lists of who was martyred on which day, so that the local church could remember them on that day) and was included in the list of saints asked to pray for us during the Eucharistic Prayer in local churches. We know that she must have then spread, because she appears in the Roman Martyrology (which is a mid-4th century martyrology for the overall Roman Church) and when Pope St Gregory I put together a version of the Mass based on what was being used at the time, he included her in the Eucharistic Prayer. So she must have been popular.
There's a fairly brief account of her life here: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/LUCY.htm
Good luck! God be with you.