On her day, with faith and hope, say this prayer to ask for help if you're dealing with eye problems or any vision-related ...

Lucy or Lucia is one of the seven women martyrs mentioned by name in the Roman Canon, the First Eucharistic Prayer. She and her ... years — but very intense. St. Lucy was one of its victims.

After all, though Lucy came from a noble family ... she was counted as one of the martyrs in the collection of prayers created by St. Pope Gregory the Great, and devotion to her was only growing.

Founded in 1884 for poor Irish immigrants, St. Lucy's Church in Downtown Jersey City flourished as a Catholic parish until 1920, when blocks of homes were razed to build the entrance and exit to ...