Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "יום סנטה לוסיה" in Hebrew language version.
Lucy's name means light. Coming midway through Advent, her feast day guides our https:everettsilvertips.com hope towards the coming of Christ in our Light. Lucy was a young woman of Syracuse in Sicily (an island off the southern coast of Italy). We know she died a martyr during the persecutions by the Roman emperor Diocletian.
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: (עזרה)Lucia means "light" and Santa Lucia became associated with light. During the Roman persecutions, Lucia is said to have carried food to the poor in dark tunnels, wearing a wreath of candles on her head.
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