St. Lucy, whose feast day is celebrated by the Catholic Church on Dec. 13, was a virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily, born in the year 283. Children participate in the annual St. Lucy's Day ...
Growing up in Sweden, Emma Bengsston was always cast as a gingersnap man, never the candle-crowned St. Lucia selected to head the train of children walking from house to house through her village each ...
BAY RIDGE — The borough’s traditionally-Scandinavian Bay Ridge will hold its Swedish Santa Lucia Procession & Community Sing Along 2024 on the evening that the church celebrates the feast day. The ...
EVANSVILLE — Grandma Grace Murray hurried down the hall after her granddaughter with a plate of Santa Lucia buns. "OK, time to put the crown on," she said to Kymberlee Rethlefsen, 9, as they prepared ...