Saint Lucia is usually represented with a tray in her hand on which lie the eyes that were removed from her. And there is a story that differs from the previous one, in which she appears as a victim of harassment from a suitor because of the beauty of her eyes. The young woman, to free herself from him, would have taken out her eyes and sent them to him. God, in reward for her modesty, restored her sight by giving her other, even more beautiful eyes.
In the Middle Ages, a period in which devotion to Lucia was strengthened, people began to ask for her intercession against eye diseases and her name was linked to the word “lux”, which in Latin means “light”. This reaffirmed those stories in which the tyrant ordered her guards to take out her eyes without her losing her vision.
Even though there is no absolute certainty about the precise data that led to Saint Lucia’s martyrdom, the veracity of her condition appears beyond doubt. In 1894 a sepulchral inscription was discovered in the catacombs of Syracuse with this inscription: Saint Lucy, martyr of the 4th century.