The saint of the Catholic Church who inspired Lucia, from ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’

One of the most successful film franchises in the 2000s was “The Chronicles of Narnia”, productions adapted from the book series of the same name, written by CS Lewis🇧🇷 The first feature was released in 2005, directed by Andrew Adamsonin addition to having a strong cast: Anna Popplewell🇧🇷 Georgie Henley🇧🇷 William Moseley🇧🇷Skandar Keynes🇧🇷 Tilda Swinton🇧🇷 James McAvoy and Liam Neeson🇧🇷

Remember the trailer for “The Chronicles of Narnia”, which is available on Disney +:

Christian inspiration

Some people don’t know, but there are many Christian fundamentals and morals within the story of the brothers who crossed a wardrobe and ended up in another world. A proof of this is that the character Lúcia (Georgie Henley), the first of the Pevensies to discover Narnia, is inspired by a saint.

The inspiration came from an Italian saint named Lucia Brocadelli from Narni🇧🇷 In addition to using the same name for a character, CS Lewis also used the city in which she lived, Narni (in Latin, Narnia), to name her entire universe. The municipality is located between the city of Assisi and Rome, in Italy.

Lucia, the Blessed, was born into a noble family at the end of the 15th century. As a child, she devoted herself to the faith, praying and decorating altars. At the age of five, while praying in front of an image of the Virgin Mary in a church, she asked to be given the image of the boy who was in her arms. The stone boy became a real person, and Lucia took care of him for three days. After that period, he returned to the church alone.

She, who also had many visions with saints, decided to follow the vow of chastity and consecrate her heart to God. The girl came to reject several suitors, but the Virgin Mary told her in a vision that she should follow her example: be married and a virgin. She was promised to Count Pietro of Milan shortly after her father’s death, and her future husband accepted her keeping her vow of chastity.

In addition to her duties as countess, Lucia always devoted himself to serving the poor. She always maintained an intense life of prayer and penance, and was never dazzled by the luxury around her, even working as a maid in her own house.

After disagreements with her husband because of her lifestyle, Lucia left and was admitted to the Third Order of Dominicans. She was sent to Viterbo, where she became abbess of the convent, and continued to see her visions and receive divine signs. After a few years, her husband then visited her and ended up joining the order.

She received, by order of the Pope Julius II, a request from the Duke of Ferrara to leave for Ferrara, and there he founded a new monastery, dedicating himself to educating young people. With the death of the Duke, some nuns who lived there decided to confine her because of jealousy. Luciahowever, did not lose his faith in God during his 38 years of confinement.

Her health became very poor, and on November 15, 1544, she died at the age of 60. Long after her death, her body was still incorrupt when her tomb was opened. In 1710 she was beatified by the Pope Clement XI🇧🇷