Martyr
Martyrs Lucia the Virgin, Rex, Antony, Lucian, Isidore, Dion, Diodorus, Cutonius, Aronus, Capicus and Saturus
† 301
Also known as: Мчч. Рикс, Антоний, Лукиан и иже с ними (с мц. Лукией), Мц. Лукия дева и с нею мчч. Рикс, Антоний, Лукиан, Исидор, Дион, Диодор, Кутоний, Аронос (Орион), Капик и Сатур, Мц. Лукия Каппадокиянка, Римская, дева, Рикс (Авций), Диодор (Диор), Аронос (Орион), Капик (Папик), Сатур (Сатурн)
A Christian woman from Campania who spent twenty years as a captive of a barbarian chieftain called Rex and converted him; under Diocletian both went willingly to martyrdom and were beheaded in Rome with nine other martyrs, about 301.
Saint Lucia was a native of Campania in Italy who devoted herself to God from her youth. As a young woman she was taken captive by a barbarian chieftain, called Rex in the Greek and Slavonic Prologues (from the Latin word for "king") and Auceius in the Latin Acts. At first he pressed her to sacrifice to idols, but, moved by her firmness, he let her and her maidservants live apart in prayer, and asked for her prayers before his campaigns.
Twenty years later, hearing of Diocletian's persecution, Lucia asked to return to Italy to confess Christ with her compatriots. Rex, who had become a Christian under her influence, left his realm, wealth and family and went with her. They were arrested and, by order of the prefect of Rome, beheaded; after them the martyrs Antony, Lucian, Isidore, Dion, Diodorus, Cutonius, Aronus, Capicus and Saturus were also beheaded, about 301. The lists of companions vary between sources. Their memory is kept on 6/19 July.