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St. Lucy
Born - c.283
Died - c.304-305
Feastday
- 13 December
Statue
created - c.1667-1668
The statue is part of a group of 16 that were
installed between August 1667 and November 1668
Sculptor
- Giovanni Maria De Rossi
He received payments for 8
statues between August 1667 and November 1668.
Height
- 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
The
statue is represented with a very simple iconography of only
the palm of martyrdom. The drapery is tunic and cloak.
All
that is really known for certain of Lucy is that she was a
martyr in Syracuse during the persecution by Diocletian of 304
AD.
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Saints
on North Colonnade
16. Ignatius of Loyola, 15. Remigius,
14. Apollonia,
13. Balbina, 12. Lucy,
11. Olympia, 10. Clare, 9. Ursula,
8. Agatha, 7. Elizabeth
of Portugal, 6.Albert |
12. Lucy and
11. Olympia
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Sources:
Roma Sacra - San Pietro in Vaticano, Itineraries 21-22, ©Fabbrica
of St. Peter's, July 2001
Le Statue Berniniani del Colonnato di San Pietro by Valentino
Martinelli ©1987 by de Luca
Editore
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