Even a bare-chested professional soccer player can don the crown of candles, as the Swedish sports icon Zlatan Ibrahimović once did in a video to affirm that men can also be Lucia. As communities ...

Lucia wears a crown of light in her hair ... cold and warmth,” say the folks at Visit Sweden, who point out the tradition is the winter equivalent of June’s fabled midsummer festivals.

Sweden. First they processed into the cathedral’s Nave singing the traditional Lucia song, dressed in white gowns and carrying candles, with Alida as Lucia, wearing a crown of candles and a ...

(KSEE/KGPE) – Kingsburg will be hosting an authentic Swedish Santa Lucia Celebration on Saturday ... a young girl dressed in white and wearing a crown of candles on her head leads a candlelight ...

Making sure “the crown fits and it’s all about walking ... The program, which includes Christmas carols, the telling of the Lucia story and Swedish folk music performed on traditional ...

According to Swedish tradition, because of the darkness, Lucia – clad in white with a crown of candles – brings light to the dark world for the Christmas season. Besides the holiday songs and ...