Lucia

Holy Martyr Lucia the widow was a rich Roman in the time of the emperors Diocletian (284 to 304) and Maximian (286 to 305). After thirty-⁠six years of widowhood, at the age of seventy-⁠five, she was denounced to Diocletian by her own pagan son, Eutropius, as believing in Christ. The saint was arrested and imprisoned. She endured cruel tortures there, but by God's grace remained unharmed and walked about the city, thereby showing the smallness of her tormentors.

Geminianus saw this, believed in Christ and appeared with Lucia before the emperor, confessing Christ. Lucia adopted Geminianus, baptized him and, freed from their tormentors, they went to Tauromenium in Sicily. There, because of a persecution, Lucia fled to the mountains, where she fell asleep in peace. Geminianus was seized and beheaded. They are commemorated on 17 September, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).