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Scandinavia House presented a festive in-person concert featuring Scandinavian and American holiday favorites as well as a traditional Saint Lucia procession, replete with traditional white gowns red ribbon belts and glowing candles.

We learned about the history of Lucia, one of the most popular holidays in Sweden, while enjoying music from members of the Swedish community in New
York, led by Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz


Saint Lucia is an example of a woman so strong in her faith that she pulled her own eyes out before she was martyred.

St. Lucia was born in 283AD to a noble family in Syracuse, Sicily, and her father, of Roman origin, died when she was only five years old. After her mother’s blindness was healed through prayer to St. Agatha, St. Lucia secretly pledged her life to God and to remain a virgin for life, in the tradition of Saint Agatha. Instead of marrying, she planned on distributing her dowry to the poor. Her mother, Eutychia, was unaware that she had pledged herself to God and arranged for St. Lucy to be married to a pagan bridegroom.

St. Lucia is most notably the patron saint of the blind, eye disorders, virgins, the poor, and the city of her birth, Syracuse, Sicily. “Lucy” means “light” or “lucid.”

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