# The Burial of Saint Lucy is painted in Syracuse in late 1608 during Caravaggio’s Sicilian flight Date: 1608 ## The fact Britannica places the Burial of Saint Lucy in Syracuse in the late-1608 Sicilian refuge after Malta. Local clergy share the commission. Later church restorations are carriers. It is one event. ## Context Sicily arrival after Malta expulsion is neighbouring. [Caravaggio](/people/caravaggio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Sicilian Spanish-ruled cities hosting a fugitive painter. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Britannica and Met narratives independently place Burial of Saint Lucy in the Sicilian exile commissions. Official or archival record: Britannica — Caravaggio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance A burial altarpiece for a martyr’s cult is a humanitarian mourning-access path. ## What is established and what is not Established: late-1608 Syracuse Burial of Saint Lucy. Not established: day precision beyond the season. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio. They are not a public rating. The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep Raising of Lazarus as a separate Messina instrument. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio. The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep Raising of Lazarus as a separate Messina instrument. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio. ## People - Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio ## Drivers - Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio - https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-burial-lucy-1608