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

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

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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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

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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