But how did Lucia, originally a Sicilian saint from Syracuse ... in many places beyond Sweden, wherever communities of Swedes have settled.Credit...Ian Forsyth/Getty Images The year I was invited ...

Lindén and her team in Sweden’s third-largest city will choose a Lucia based on good deeds and civic engagement rather than on photos. It’s fitting, perhaps, as Lucia is the patron saint of ...

Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar of Sweden dressed up to celebrate St. Lucia’s Day on Monday! The Swedish Royal Court released a new picture of the royal siblings to mark the Feast of ...

“The night treads heavily/ around yards and dwellings/ In places unreached by sun/ the shadows brood/ Into our dark house she comes/ bearing lighted candles/ Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia.

St. Lucy’s Day ... were encouraged to eat seven to nine breakfasts. In agrarian Sweden, individuals would dress up as Lucia figures and wander from house to house singing songs and scrounging ...

The annual celebration is known as a Christian feast day commemorating the martyr Lucia of Syracuse. Saint Lucy‘s Day was once the date of the winter solstice, so she is the saint of light in ...

A Lucia concert in the somewhat grander Gustav Vasa Church in Stockholm. Photo: Ola Ericson/imagebank.sweden.se At his first event requiring ... as the cheery pensioner at the door of the St Pauli ...

St. Lucia’s Day, a winter holiday traditionally observed on December 13 in the Scandinavian countries, is getting a modern update.