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ST. LUCY, VIRGIN
SHE was daughter to a king of the Scots, and
retired into France to serve God in obscurity. She chose for herself
a solitary place on the north side of the river Meuse in the diocess
of Verdun, where she lived in the practice of the most sublime
virtues, till God called her to a happy immortality in the year 1090.
She was buried in a church built by herself on the summit of a
mountain near her own cell; and was enrolled in the number of the
saints by Henry bishop of Verdun.* Her relics are kept during the
summer season in the church of Mount St. Lucy, but in winter in the
parish church of Sampigny; of both which churches she is the titular
patroness. The former belonging to the Minims was erected under her
invocation, in 1625, by the prince of Phalneburg, of the house of
Guise, and by his wife, who was sister to Charles IV. duke of
Lorraine. The shrine of Saint Lucy is much resorted to by pilgrims;
it was visited in 1609 by the duchess of Lorraine of the house of
Mantua, and in 1632 by Louis XIII., king of France, who was then at
the siege of St. Myhel in Lorraine. See the Hist. of Lorraine, t. 3,
p. 218; Cle. Act. SS. t. 6, Sept. p. 101. Dempster, Camerarius,
Lahier, and her MS. life, written in 1747.
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