Saint Lucy's Day included. Then the Guild of St. Lucia, a senior honors society, reviews the remaining nominations and selects up to three more women to serve on the court with the goal of having the court be representative of the sophomore class. The town of Mucuchíes in Mérida state, Venezuela, has chosen as their patron saints St. Lucy and St. Benedict the Moor. Patron saint festivities are held during the month of December. Saint Lucy's Day Saint Lucy's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Lucy, is a Christian feast day celebrated on 13 December in Advent, commemorating Saint Lucy, a 3rd-century
Saint Theodore's Day said to have been transferred to Brindisi, and he is there honored as patron; his head is said to be enshrined at Gaeta. His encounter with a dragon was transferred to the more-widely venerated Saint George. Books mentioned Articles Saint Theodore's Day Saint Theodore's Day is a religious holiday celebrated on the first Saturday of the Great Lent. On this day as well as on February 17, the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of Theodore Tyron. Veneration of St. Theodor is witnessed since in the early centuries. In the times of Christian persecution, Julian the Apostate (332 -- 363) continued