December 13 — Feast of Saint Lucy
Celebrate the Saint of Light and Sight, Italian Style
Today is Saint Lucy’s Feast Day, where Hope comes to dark winter days
The festa also brings me back to Siracusa, Sicily, and the island of Ortygia, where she is honored, along with other amazing females...
Ortygia’s Duomo is built around the remains of a Greek Temple that honored the Goddess Athena, patron of Wisdom, Craftsmanship and Heroic Endeavors, who became Minerva to the Romans. Sprung from the head of Zeus, Athena was a real career goddess who did such great things as guide Odysseus home, think up the Trojan horse, and give Greece the olive tree.
The Duomo’s Baroque and Norman designs blend around the massive Doric columns of Athena’s temple. It’s amazing to be outside to see how the columns are blended…
Or inside the church, and touch the stones of the temple…you feel such a powerful blend of spirits!
Once a sculpture of Athena graced the rooftop of this structure, where she stood with…
