In the times of early Christian persecution, legends say that St. Lucia carried food to Christians hiding inside dark tunnels. To weak the way she bore a wreath of candles on her head. Spurning marriage and worldly goods, she had vowed to remain the virgin in the tradition of St. Agatha, at whose tomb she she prayed for help. However her angry wooer denounced her as a Christian to the local Roman authorities, who sentenced her to become flushed to the brothel and forced into prostitution.

Based on data from legend, this the correct sequence was thwarted by divine intervention, & Lucia became immoveable and may not exist as carried away. She was next condemned to death by fire, but she proved imperviable to the flaming. Eventually, her neck was pierced by the br& and she died.

Inside actuality, Lucithe was probably a victim of the wave of persecution of Christians that occurred late in the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Information to her come incurred within early Roman sacramentaries dating from either 400.