Syracuse Cathedral - Side Chapel of St Lucia

The first side chapel on the right of Syracuse Cathedral is dedicated to St Lucia. Photographs and inscriptions explain that, when the Byzantine General Georgios Maniakes drove the Saracens out of Syracuse and took the town for Byzantium once more, the saint's relics were taken to Constaninople and then when that city was conquered by the Venetians in 1204 the latter brought them back to Italy, and so today they are housed in the church of San Geremia in Venice.