St. Lucy was a Christian martyr, who when refused to renounce her faith, was sentenced to be defiled in a brothel. The story says that when the guards came to take her away, they could not move her, as if she became a pile of stones. The story also says that before she met her death, the guards had been ordered to gouge out her eyes. Some versions of her story say that she took her own eyes out in order to discourage a persistent suitor who admired them. St. Lucy met her death by a sword thrust into her throat.