Santa Lucia

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Santa Lucia
By E.F.
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Basic Information About Santa Lucia

• Celebrated on December 13
• Girls dress up as Santa Lucia
• Mainly celebrated in Sweden
• Celebrated because of St. Lucia
• You eat Lussekatter buns and gingerbread cookies

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History of Santa Lucia

• She was a Christian who married an unbeliever and
  because of that the king ordered people to kill
  her.
  
• She was tortured and killed

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Symbols

• The white dress
• The red sash
• The wreath of candles

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Key Words

• Lingonberry
• White Dress
• Red Sash
• Lussekatter

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Lussekatter Bun s Ginger Bread Cookies

• These are traditional foods

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Song
The night goes with weighty step round yard and
(stove i.e. house, hearth?) round earth. The
sun's departure leaves the woods brooding. There
in our dark house, appears with lighted candles
Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia. The night goes great
and mute. Now one hears its wings in every
silent room murmuring as if from wings. Look at
our threshold. There she stands white-clad with
lights in her hair Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia
The darkness shall soon depart from the earth's
valleys thus she speaks a wonderful word to us.
The day shall rise anew from the rosy sky. Saint
Lucia, Saint Lucia.
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Bibliography

• WWW Resources
• 1. Holiday Lucia Day, December 13. http//www.
  swedishkitchen.com/lucia.html
  
• 12/4/05
• 2. Petro, Bill. History of Luciadagen.
  http//www.billpetro.com/HolidayHistory/holxmas/
  lucia.html 12/5/05
  
• 3. Kristian Nora. Santa Lucia in Sweden.
  http// www.internet-at-work.com/
  hos_mergane/holidays/nora.html
  
• 4. The Christmas Season in Scandavalia. http//
  www.eurochrismas.com/geninfo/luciaday.htm
  
• Book Resources
• Kindersley, Anabel. Celebrations. New York DK
  Publishing Inc., 1997
  
• Shaw, Janet. Kirstens Surprise. New York. Dover
  Publications, Inc. 1986