Lucy stares directly forward and stands tall, wearing a green and red robe that extends down to her feet. She has rosy cheeks and flowing, brown hair with a halo around her head. signifying her martyrdom. In her right hand, she holds a palm branch and in her left, a golden plate with eyeballs. Some hagiography of Lucy’s life indicate that she removed her own eyes to avoid the advances of a suitor who admired them; other accounts say her eyes were removed as part of multiple types of torture she endured before being killed by a dagger to her neck. Lucy has been widely venerated in the Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox Churches.