Anyone? Because I have found no mention of it anywhere on the site, yet it is a wonderful Swedish holiday. I just want to know who else celebrates it, and if you do, I would love some stories!
2006-11-25 12:51:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
St. Lucia was married to a rich man, and kept giving his food and money to the poor.
He didn't appreciate this, and tried to burn her at the stake, but the flames didn't harm her/fire wouldn't light. They eventually (the way I heard it) killed her with a sword.
2006-11-25 12:59:16 · update #1
And now the Swedes (myself included, though I'm from the U.S.) celebrate her lif on the longest night of the year, by having the eldest daughter wear a crown of candles, white robe, and red sash, and serve cookies to her family. In Sweden they chose one girl to be St. Lucia.
2006-11-25 13:03:11 · update #2
Found you some information... Hope it helps.
(1)Born
13 January 1672 at Corneto, Tuscany, Italy
Died
25 March 1732 of cancer at Montefiascone, Italy; buried at the Cathedral of Montefiascone
Canonized
22 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI
(2)According to legend, hunger during a famine had weakened so many people in Syracuse that they went as a group to church to ask the saint for deliverance. While they were praying, a ship loaded with grain sailed into the harbor. So to celebrate Santa Lucia Day, Italians eat instead of bread a boiled wheat dish called cuccia or cuccidata.
Some St. Lucy-related folklore advised completion of certain tasks by her day: the threshing of all grain from the year's harvest, the completion of the season's spinning and weaving, and the completion of all Christmas cleaning and decorating. Other traditions suggested that farmers slaughter the Christmas pig on St. Lucy's Day and that cooks bury the lutfisken, a traditional Christmas fish, in beech ashes on St. Lucy's Day to be ready by Christmas
Each year the honor of crowning Stockholm's Lucy bride goes to the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
2006-11-25 13:06:07 · answer #1 · answered by Akkita 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Sweden the celebration is usually early in the morning, before sunrise, and all the little girls in my daughters 1st grade class are very excited (my teenager, not so much, I'm not sure I could pay her enough to dress up as Lucia and serve us Lussekatter :)
There's a pretty good rundown on the history and various celebrations at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lucia_Day
By the way, St Bridget is the patron saint of Sweden, not Lucia. Not that it matters much, since Sweden hasn't been Catholic in 600 odd years, which makes it odd really that celebrating a saints day is one of the favourite holidays of the year.
2006-11-26 01:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by Gullefjun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be Patron Saint of Bright Shiny Things and Patron Saint of Bourbon.
2016-05-23 02:45:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and she was from the Italian city of Narnia... I think she was a mystic I'm not sure why the Swedish people were so taken by an Italian mystic... ????so the flames are why Swedish girls wear candles in their hair????
This is the saint that Lucy Pavance, aka Lucy of Narnia of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was based on by CS Lewis
2006-11-25 12:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋