Christmas - Santa Lucia Sweden

[@crystalmeier6579]

My family from Sweden. I took part in St. Lucia celebration every year. I couldn't wait to be old enough to finally get to represent St. Lucia! I was 16yrs old when i got my turn. It is my best holiday memory, apart from the fear of the hot, melting wax dripping on my hair! Lol! Battery operated wreaths had not been made yet.😅

[@dariobordignon7048]

It's nice to hear this music sung divinely. The music was composed by an Italian from Naples in 1849. I too have sung it many times. But these girls are gorgeous.

[@susansargent12]

At the international school in Ethiopia, some Swedish students and their parents put this together for us. It was such a beautiful ceremony and appreciated by all.

[@an7tmo794]

🕯️👑🕯️👑🕯️👑✝️

[@gfinnstrom]

My grandparents were first gen Swedish in America they both passed in the 1980s at 94 95 I miss the Holidays and the great meals from my grandmother made sad there are not many traditions left

[@dancingcedar]

I love this. I am half Swedish and I grew up with this. I get tears when I hear this song. The legend in Sweden is that in medieval times there was a famine and on Lake Vanern in Sweden, a boat appeared with a woman radiating light at the bow. She alighted on the shore and gave the people food and clothing, and then returned to the boat and vanished into the lake. A translation: "Night casts its heavy veil, O'er homes and dwellings, And as the twilight fails, Cold woods are calling.

[@christinapsalmist4267]

This song was playing in the background radio when my daughter Maria was being born. She really is an angel to this day.. Age 22. Learning to catch babies... Moved out with boyfriend we miss her ❣ 🙏 gift from God

[@christinapsalmist4267]

Catching babies in Australia now. Miss her too much. But sooo proud of her. 🙏 ♥️

[@danielbethancourt8861]

​@@christinapsalmist4267 That sounds awesome! I hope your daughter is thriving and you get to see each other soon!

[@LaBucci]

Such a precious tradition! I love the all white robes they wear!!! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 Long live Sweden and it’s traditions!

[@vligeti2228]

Danny Fenty Pure-white robe combined with red belt-sash (what the girls are wearing) are the signs/symbols of martyrdom, which Saint Lucy is. And yes, I do agree... they look very angelic. ☺️👰🏼🙏🏻

[@an7tmo794]

@@vligeti2228 \\Thanks for your info.! "God be blessed in His angels & His Saints" ✝️🕯️👑👰

[@KG-nb8mq]

Young Royals brought me here! Beautiful version

[@mthegazemolaoa4259]

Yess same here😭😭

[@patricksalvage7455]

Me too

[@firelordOzai3]

I came to watch this because of Young Royals. Beautiful

[@juancruz-ps3cs]

Me too! Beautiful Song!

[@mia_9926]

I was raised Catholic and much of my religious life was tied to Santa Lucia. On her feast day I woke up and I wore candles on my head and sang this song. When I was to receive my Confirmation, I chose Lucia as my representative saint. While I don't follow Catholicism or Christianity anymore and I am now atheist, I think it is still the most beautiful tradition

[@pc.2700]

Bellissimo canto sembra di stare in paradiso, bellissima melodiad 🙏😘😍💐💐💗💗👋👍👏👏😇😇

[@katrin896]

I am from Iceland and I remember this as a child. I love this tradition in cold, dark Scandinavia

[@an7tmo794]

😃😇✝️

[@gerlandoriolo8421]

Nel nome di Dio nostro ringazio Dio s.calogero echi mia mandato questo filmato buon santalucia e tutti con questo nome

[@shalimarsgirl]

I do remember this from Stockholm, even though I was a little girl at the time. The sight of lovely blonde ladies wearing lighted candles in their hair were singing this song. Sweet memories ...thank you! With love from Canada, Evy

[@dancingcedar]

Comes then into the night, Glowing with candlelight, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia.... Where darkness was so still, Soft sounds are crying, And as a joyous song, Rooms fill rejoicing, For on the threshold stands, robed in her gracious love, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia.... Darkness will soon be gone, from earth's deep hollows, as she in joyous song, bids us to follow. With her we'll sing our song, as the new dawn appears, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia. It is a Swedish custom, in homes and schools, etc.

[@jazzgermany]

So wunderschön!!! They can sing! Endlich...Luciasängerinnen, die auch singen können. Danke. Takk!

[@maiia5218]

The best thing with Lucia is when you get up at like six in the morning and eat saffron buns, drink hot cocao, light candles and watch the Lucia train on TV. En av de mysigaste högtiderna enligt moi! :)

[@lauramilagros5472]

13/12/2024 Could you translate the Swedish, please? Happy Día de Sta. Lucía from California, USA!

[@melissahoule1492]

I discovered this video last year about this time on a day when I felt very sad and despairing about the Pandemic. The singing was so beautiful as are the young women in it, it brought tears to my eyes. It was a message of light and hope I very much needed. A year later when things are better if not yet normal, I still love this video and this version of the song!

[@Winona493]

Your words in combination with these devine voices make me cry right now!

[@EnergyCuddles]

One of our most heartwarming traditions here in the cold North. Light always wins over shadows. ♥

[@aeonnews8019]

grow in light and the shadows will be gone

[@TheShgrbear]

is it December 11th ?

[@malinstefan2447]

Teragauss Cuddle g

[@eve727]

@@TheShgrbear december 13th

[@Tatrafan2.0]

Yes its a nice Song and a nice Video.

[@MizzNijna]

I was Lucia when I was 12. Three trains during one day, and at that time I had hair down to my waist. It took two of my sisters about 2,5 hours to pic all the wax out of my hair. This is something you rarely hear about, the pain to get the candle wax out of the hair.

[@MizzNijna]

What about it?

[@freewriterguy]

I am going to have my daughter do Sta. Lucia tonight. I am going to put a wreath in her hair without candles. She will hold a tray with a short candle on it, along with the Sta. Lucia buns. Much easier than picking wax!

[@EnergyCuddles]

+MizzNijna One thing that many lucias do is that they put a thin white veil on top of their head, , so that the wax drips onto that instead. :)

[@MizzNijna]

***** Had the veil, had to, it was wet and there for protection against the fire, and the possible heat from the wax. It is not there to capture all the wax, and it can't really. ,

[@siegrunbeyer8589]

Zauberhaft, geht direkt ins Herz, dieser Gesang, und die Brennenden Kerzen auf dem Kopf zu tragen, bewundernswert. Danke für soviel Vollkommenheit......

[@MondragonChiropractic]

Best version on KZbin! I am playing it in August in Florida!

[@Tatrafan2.0]

I agree

[@krohseruth2003]

stupendo !!!!! grazie

[@Winona493]

​@@krohseruth2003I'd automatically think that "stupendo" means "stupid". What a fail! 😂

[@alexanderhovenstein6732]

Beautiful and so important with traditions ,particularly when you live abroad ,I am a swede living in USA 🇺🇸

[@kimc3024]

Ja! 🇸🇪

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

God dag. I'm learning a little bit of Svenska myself. But I'm still learning

[@alexanderhovenstein6732]

jasminne mcdonald hej Jasminne ,wow I am surprised,very good 🇸🇪🇺🇸🇸🇪🇺🇸🥳

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

@@alexanderhovenstein6732 I'm really African-American. But I'm learning new things. Like languages. And finding a guy to share my knowledge with. Someone whose like me.

[@jamanak123]

Very touching. Beautiful to they ears and to the soul.

[@mongeegnom9614]

Freies Schweden ich gönne Euch ein schönes freies Weihnachtsfest......,

[@johnrossomando208]

The song always puts chills down my spine. It makes me think of my late Grandmother.

[@shalimarsgirl]

I remember this timeless tune from many years ago in Stockholm. Beautiful memory! Thank you. With love from Canada, Evy

[@maddie1701e]

It's celebrated in the Nordic region. I remember it fondly from my childhood where we went to the old folks home to sing and hopefully give them a nice day:)

[@denisethorbjornsen7493]

I am part swedish and I enjoyed this beautiful tradition beautiful song

[@MrGargamelG]

A legend says this, long ago there was severe famine in Värmland (a province in western Sweden). The population suffered greatly and they had given up all hope of help. Then came a ship steering over the lake Vänern. On the ship, there was a woman who was surrounded by light. She went ashore and handed out food to the hungry and saved their lives. To her memorial Lucia is celebrated..

[@brucethumper]

Christmas morning in Sweden. Britt and Karin sang this years ago in their Swedish America Children's Club.

[@alejandrapadillaazuaje8718]

I am playing it in Venezuela. I feel a deep connection to Swedish ancient traditions, it's wired I'm feeling this but it's a genuine feeling

[@lauramilagros5472]

12/13/24 You are felling the way you do bc this holy day is a very Catholic Christian "thing". Being a Venezolano, I presume you to be Católico. So, *THAT* is why you are feeling the spiritual connection. If you aren't Catholic or Protestant - then you are very blessed to be in tune with the spiritual & the unseen. ¡Feliz Día de Sta. Lucía, comay! 🇵🇷 🇨🇺 🇸🇪

[@Piesis9]

As an atheist I just love the vibe of this song, even if I don’t understand a single word! And I’ve loved it for a long time

[@Monaghan3000]

Well, then, you should read the story of holy martyr St. Lucy (Santa Lucia) whose eyes were gouged out for her faith, and whose name means 'light.'

[@Piesis9]

I don’t care about St Lucia or any of that holy stuff. I just said I love the song. Just as I love ABBAs Dancing Queen without giving a damn about a dancing queen. It’s a nice song to me, that’s it, nothing more nothing less

[@mia_9926]

Yes same with me, I was raised Catholic but I am athiest now

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

GOD JUL from South California

[@annaquesadilla]

This is just so beautiful

[@manugik]

this is beautiful, cheers from Argentina

[@Phil72099]

Last Christmas we went to a Luthern church in Lexington that had a Santa Lucia service; nicely done and with a potluck afterwards

[@Huineng10]

I knew nothing about the Festival of Light, nor about Sankta Lucia's meaning in Sweden. The story and the exquisite rendition of the song touched me deeply.

[@robinceuleers]

Omg beautiful ladies it's like a Fairy tale ✨

[@Tatrafan2.0]

I like old Christmas Traditions.

[@adrianahinestrosa3518]

This is a beautiful song 🎵 that will forever live 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@astridastrid3594]

My Mormor my Mor myself my daughter...my granddaughter.... Spine tingling performance!

[@bobbiemilton3687]

Simply beautiful. Took me way back to E SCHOOL. Indeed, those are most memorable days.

[@jenelleward8273]

Always makes me cry, thinking of my Grandma MorMor. I know I will see you again.

[@Christmascraver]

Happy St. Lucy's Day!!! My name is Lucy and so was my Grandmother's name. What a beautiful custom!

[@kathrinehoegh]

I love Lucia. I've been a Lucia Bride a couple of times ^^ It's awesome.

[@007MariaMaria]

Beautiful Santa Lucia!

[@theperson278]

sankta*

[@alexandermacrae9397]

Yes, keep your traditions, the only sane people left in the world. This is beautiful. The Light will return.

[@alexandermacrae9397]

+Oxaz Evropeansoæle Indeed it will. God Jul.

[@an7tmo794]

Amen

[@pakochagasrocha4811]

Lindíssima, canção Napolitana ...

[@KrzysztofTomecki]

Certo! 🤗❤😇

[@RevWarRev]

So wonderfull! Lovely and graceful and just beautiful! You've made my Lucy Day!

[@CostantinoLenzi]

Incredible in Sweden such a beautiful cattolich demostration

[@addisalemdemese6893]

How amazing and beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤ thank you 🙏 and Mery_x Mas🎉

[@hallisonpal]

I'm writing about St. Lucia's Day for a paper and I looked up the St. Lucia song and this was beautiful!

[@jmatthepines]

It has become a retail holiday !!! But the songs of the Winter season are lovely. I like Baby it's Cold outside. :) Happy Winter Solstice to All and to All A Goodnight.

[@englishtwister]

I could not imagine this in the UK, all the health and safety and all that. the candles would probably be battery powered and carried by hand.. just incase one sneezes, trips or leans their head forward.

[@seagirltoo]

You are wrong. Swedish expats do Lucia every year in the UK, no problem with the health and safety. In London, at least, there are many services every year in December, most of them with the (marvellous) Choir of the Swedish Church in London. The last two years I have been to the one hosted by the Southwark Cathedral (this year, 2014, it has just been done; it was this past Sunday, 7th December 2014). I go to this, because they allow kids. There is a more formal one that does not allow them: They do it all again at one of the big churches, on the actual Lucia date, 13th December: Sometimes they'll have it at St Paul's Cathedral and sometimes at Westminster Abbey, where it'll take place again this year, on 13 December 2014. They wear the entire outfit, candles on the head and all - and if you are connected to Sweden I strongly recommend it, for it happens in candlelight and it is magical! :)

[@elenadascalu2927]

Ha ha YOU are So right

[@elmario4997]

englishtwister stop being so practical and enjoy the moment.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

seagirltoo actually they used Westminster Cathedral not Westminster Abbey.

[@elmario4997]

Beautiful and a bit spooky at the same time 😯

[@biancarose1992618]

This is gorgeous

[@YouSeeStudio]

Den här låten ger mig julstämning

[@YouSeeStudio]

Här igen

[@kimc3024]

Mycket bra!!! 🇸🇪 Tack! 🇸🇪

[@sandyjohnson9114]

Well, that was lovely!

[@sveingrimstad9151]

Perfekt! Jeg letet lenge gjennom flere versjoner av sangen og denne er best både visuelt og vokalt. Et lucia jente-kor som kommer langsomt og syngende opp kirkegulvet med lys på sidene, med lys kranser i hodet, og går frem til alteret og stiller seg opp der! Helt perfekt! Der fant jeg Lucia stemningen jeg lette etter, takk for amazing video!

[@eva-lenajohansson7442]

Den Bästa den finaste Texten

[@conchifuenteverdeal9129]

Preciosa celebración

[@AyaanMahapatra]

How musical and magical

[@LeislSchutte-jb2yu]

Reminds me of a church service that I don’t remember because u was really little but not so little I shouldn’t remember that my parents said during the singing or Silent Night I lit my hair on fire That was at a Methodist Church- the same one my parents were married in where the song Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof was sung.

[@giovannarusso4083]

Gli svedesi festeggiano la nostra Santa Lucia.😘😘😘😘❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JarrodAlagao]

I leaned the first verse in this language at school. Couldn't remember what language it was and took me an hour with my Snapchat AI translating but to no avail 😂. Finally decided to listen to some versions on KZbin until I found this, so thank you!

[@123ZanMan]

In Sweden, where the winters are so very dark...she represents light and brightness. The Swedes were pagans, and Lucia was someone who spread the word of Christianity through the pagan countries, so the "light" she brings, not only represents the winter solstice when the days begin to get longer, and there is more daylight, but also the light of the christian beliefs in that Jesus is light to people's lives.

[@marikesl]

this is just BEAUTIFUL!!! i LOVE lucia!!!

[@lauramilagros5472]

12/13/2024 Happy & Blessed Día de Sta Lucía to everyone from California! Let your light shine! #StLucíaFeastDay #StLucíasDay

[@marinaruizfernandez8968]

PRECIOSO, yo lo he reenviado Mucho 👏👏👏😘😘😘

[@haileyrae3426]

This is so cool and beautiful wow

[@lucymeiro]

Piękny zwyczaj !

[@brentfiletti4032]

This is my absolute favorite recording of this song. Beautiful voices in a simple arrangement. Does anyone know who arranged this version or where I can purchase the sheet music?

[@jhendin]

+Brent Filetti The NDR up in the upper right corner means it's a production of Norddeutscher Rundfunk, which is North German Radio and TV. It's based in Hamburg. It's evidently a clip they showed as a commercial around Christmas time. It would stand to reason this was shown on North German television, since the northern half of Germany is mostly Lutheran, as is most of Sweden. joychristmas.blogspot.com/2010/12/night-time-walks-heavily-round-farm-and.html. Here is a link that provides the lyrics in both Swedish and English.

[@ferrocinque3938]

Natten går tunga fjätt, runt gård och stuva Kring jord som soln förlätt, skuggorna ruva Då i vårt mörka hus, stiger med tända ljus Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia Natten är stor och stum, ny hör det svingar I alla tysta rum, sus som av vingar Se, på vår tröskel står, vitklädd, med ljus i hår Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia Mörkret skall flykta snart ur jordens dalar Så hon ett underbart ord till oss talar Dagen skall åter ny stiga ur rosig sky Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia

[@ekay2705]

Fond memories of my childhood in sweden... Solna Skola!!! 🙆🙆🙆

[@zoneeify]

KINDER SUPRISE

[@ekay2705]

+Wex Pex why 'kinder suprise?'

[@Decebal2212]

Lovely.. we used to celebrate Santa Lucia like this in our school in Germany :)

[@Winona493]

Human voices can be so devine!!!! ❤

[@Peeters.peeters]

Das ist europäische Kultur 😍

[@mieroth]

@Guitarscreech06: Definitely all Catholic countries. You mean where her day is celebrated? Primarily in Sweden. She's also celebrated in parts of Italy as well along with Norway, Denmark, and Finland. And you'll find small pockets in northern continental europe (germany, etc) and the balkans who celebrate it as well. But this is generally unknown. :)

[@Thildemaria1]

It is also very popular i Denmark... i'm pretty sure every school here have a Lucia procession with girls from a particular class. I absolutely love it and kinda miss the time where i was in the procession.... There's just something about this day that's magic. Seeing all those sweet girls in their white dresses, walking through a dark room with their candles, it is so beautiful

[@fatherchristmas2998]

beautiful traditions merry christmas

[@kjthegawd5620]

im here cus i just unlocked a memory from when i had to sing this in chorus in elementary school 🤣🤣 dis shit slap til this today

[@timoloef]

beautifully sung!

[@ivanhangstrup3701]

It's belong to Sweden ❤️🇸🇪 regards from🇩🇰

[@josejuansantananaranjo2972]

Beautiful !

[@SK-ut6tw]

Oh my goodness. Look at the beautiful blonde nordic children. So beautiful.

[@mieroth]

@andrielisilien: Melody is Italian as Saint Lucia was Italian. They celebrate her (to a lesser extent) in Italy as well and you can find this song in Italian as well. ;)

[@telemakus]

Unlocked a childhood memory ❤️

[@albin4323]

One of the few songs you get to roll your r's again 🤣👍

[@svenmichael24]

such a beautiful, elegant tradition saknar dig, sverige!

[@chloeedmund4350]

Very beautiful!

[@ivamacaj5010]

❤ Na sv. Luciu som mala svadbu🎉

[@marinaruizfernandez8968]

Es muy bonito y emotivo 👍👏👏👏😘😘😘🤗❤️😍

[@FriendsMusicFashion]

Extremely well-coordinated!

[@paololim3513]

Considering that this was shown on West German TV, I am glad they did not dub this, just as is the practice of many outlets in the country.

[@sickofcrap8992]

That's just beautiful.

[@kathrinehoegh]

Lucia is also celebrated in Denmark, and we adopted it from Sweden around 100 years ago. We don't have any religious reason to celebrate it, since Protestantism really isn't big on saints. My guess is that we like it because it's pretty. It's a combination of light and music. Unlike Sicily, the North gets very dark in the winter. The 'bringing of the light' has always been celebrated up here, long before any kinds of Christianity reached us. God jul !

[@arttykeemaioak]

Beautiful 💒💒🎄🎄🌹🌹

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

God Jul and Good Yule

[@an7tmo794]

S. Lucy, St. Agatha, St. Agnus ✝️🕯️

[@Xorrak]

The graceful and untouchable beauty of femininity. A rare sight these days

[@Saprimentozz_Big_trap]

Beautiful Sweden tradition