A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Lucy (23)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

B. Lucy (23), Oct 2, M. 1622, at Nangasaki (according to Pagès, it was at Chendai), with her husband, B. Lewis Giachici or Yakichi, and their sons, Andrew, aged eight, and Francis, four. Lewis was condemned to be burnt; as he was coming out of the place where he had heard his sentence, he met his wife and children, who had just been ordered to be beheaded. They were executed before his eyes, and he was stationed about six feet from the wood that was to roast him slowly to death; but he was so worn out with all he had suffered that his martyrdom was over in half an hour. Authorities, same as for Lucy de Freitas.