it has been told that during a famine in Sweden, a woman with a white robe and candles on her head was seen around the area of Lake Vanern, carrying food for the poor. Today, St. Lucia Day is ...

St. Lucia Day is celebrated on Dec. 13 in the Nordic countries. Lucia was from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily. Lucia proclaimed herself as a Christian, refused to marry her pagan husband-to-be ...