Rome Newsroom, Dec 12, 2022 / 08:04 am
On the eve of the feast of St. Lucy, Pope Francis encouraged members of an association for the blind and visually impaired to follow the example of the young martyr by courageously standing up for the truth.
“Lucy, a Syracusan martyr, reminds us by her example that the highest dignity of the human person consists in bearing witness to the truth, following one’s conscience whatever the costs, without duplicity and without compromise,” he said at the Vatican Dec. 12.

On the Italian island region of Sicily, the pope spoke about the virgin saint from Syracuse, whose feast day is celebrated Dec. 13, during a meeting with the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired.