Several works by the San Cataldo painter Michele Butera (1789–1865) are also preserved: the Martyrdom of Saint Lucy (1836) and Saint Vincent Ferrer, both placed in the apse of the main altar; while the Madonna of Health (1863) and the Portrait of Giacomo Oddo (1863)—blind in one eye and wearing an earring to ward off evil forces—are kept in the sacristy. The feast of the Syracusan martyr is celebrated, as usual, on December 13, a day considered before the Gregorian reform (1582) to be the shortest of the year, as it coincided with the winter solstice.
This belief gave rise to a series of proverbs. In San Cataldo, the beginning of the bad season was greeted with two sayings: “Santa Lucì un passu di cucciu fì” (“Saint Lucy, the step of a sparrow”) or, instead of the sparrow’s hopping (cucciu fì), the “cuccì” was mentioned, the traditional meal made of wheat and chickpeas, also prepared for All Souls’ Day.