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# Caravaggio's “Burial of Saint Lucy”, painted in 1608 during his flight from Malta, is in Syracuse, in the church of Santa Lucia alla Badia on Ortygia
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kartina-karavadzho-pogrebenie-sviatoi-liuchii-napisannaia-im-v-1608-godu-vo-vremia-begstva-s-malty-nakhoditsia-v-sirakuzakh-v-tserkvi-santa-liuchiia-alla-badiia-na-ortigii/
- Published: 2026-02-26T08:05:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:50.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Heritage

The picture was painted to a local commission, at a time when the cult of the saint venerated here had suffered from the theft of her relics.

In this large-format altarpiece, measuring three metres by four, the body of the beheaded martyr Lucy of Syracuse is shown in the catacombs, with gravediggers and mourners beside her