Sweden's Weird Catholic Relationship w/ Santa Lucia

On December 13th each year Sweden, and some other parts of the world, celebrate Santa Lucia, a Saint from almost two thousand years ago whose eyes were gouged out and then became a saint.
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[@KeithTN]

Thanks for sharing your traditions. I really enjoy hearing about customs in other countries.

[@MisterFantasyRelax]

In Southern ITALY we celebrate the Saint with a Bonfire Fire of Saint Lucia On the night of 12 12 Dicembre 2019 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWSUn4ygnbComqs

[@albertperez2292]

I loved your video. Thank you for sharing your tradition, sounds pretty amazing. I’ve seen videos of the ceremony celebrations but wondered if you have any specific videos you’d suggest to see the celebration

[@matterofpib]

I love this tradition.

[@rose-marielundholm3597]

Don't worry small little girls get electric lights. But I think in the official SVT broadcast of the consert use real candle light.

[@joshhibbs_nola]

Thanks for sharing this. I would have never guessed they celebrate this in Sweden. I come from a Sicilian family so we def. celebrate it.

[@tcl379]

Wonderful story! So I think I’ll just arbitrarily appoint you as Santa Lucia of the Internet! Since you bring us a little light with each of your posts!

[@uniquethingsmake8446]

I have an old tradicional from Hungary. Dec 1 to Dec 13 Luca's day (Luca = Lucia) all days small build a little chair, this's Luca's chair... Allways day other wood used this stool. Dec. 13 the end of build, then if you stand up this chair you visible who's a whitch. :D This is good tradition to any woodworkers. ;)

[@robinwise1101]

What special post. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!

[@whitedoggarage]

What a lovely memory, thank you very much for sharing that with us Lin.

[@BakeAcrossEurope]

The reason she is celebrated in Sweden is because in the Middle Ages when Sweden was going through a great famine, she brought bread and wheat to the people of Sweden on a ship in the middle of the night. She was surrounded by light and saved people from starving to death. That's also why saffron buns (made from wheat) are eaten on her feast day.

[@robertaswanson5633]

I attended a Swedish Lutheran College where Santa Lucia was always a big celebration. But I never understood why a Sicilian girl was feted in Sweden. Thank you for clearing this up!

[@BakeAcrossEurope]

@@robertaswanson5633 no problem! The more I've read about this tradition, the more I've realized few people know about it's origins. Funny how things become a part of a culture without the story of it being passed on with it.

[@thisisbethm]

Thank you for sharing. It sounds beautiful!

[@MrHarveyluke]

Very interesting in learning about this custom, and the connection of Roman Catholicism and Lutheran Sweden. Thank you for sharing.

[@MrMarkpeggy]

Thank you for sharing this Catholic Lutheran tradition. Very beautiful.

[@tarz9386]

THANKS FOR SHARING.

[@FredMcIntyre]

Really nice Linn, thanks for sharing! 👍🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@andrewdeem9064]

I love learning more about your Swedish culture!

[@natasaivanovic1352]

Det är också ssantalusia i Norige

[@RivertownWoodcraft]

Thank you for sharing this, I just called over my two little daughters to watch this with me. Very neat tradition!

[@albertperez2292]

Nice 👍🏽 video

[@greenkitty6482]

Thanks for sharing this part of custom/culture in such an interesting and informative way. I love the drawings : )

[@kortt]

I remember singing Santa Lucia in school. Thank for telling her story, I never knew it.

[@69virgin1966]

Very good trip down memory lane. It sounds like a really good tradition. I especially like the drawings of the story 😀. Thanks for sharing

[@Blueberry40]

Because of this, your country should have the kids take the day off from school and the parents take the day off from work. It just sounds like a big enough reason to stay home.

[@hansdegroot8549]

Thanks for the video. It's nice to hear the story of Santa Lucia. I do not remember if we ever learned something about it at school. In any case it was very interesting to me. Thanks for sharing.

[@MrMarkpoole]

I had never heard of this before.It's always interesting to learn about customs from other places.

[@Graeme408]

Thank you. I love learning about Sweeden. I worked in Germany for a number of years and enjoyed some of the unfamiliar customs. Chief among those was the Easter Fire in the country. Quite a spectacle.

[@terryannanderson8812]

Beautiful traditions.

[@blackemmons]

Interesting. Thanks. JimE

[@TLPresnell]

I love hearing about others traditions. The only thing that would make this better is a picture (or video) of you participating in one of the processions.

[@lucaschiantodipepe2015]

Saint Lucia was born and raised in Siracusa, island of Sicily. Why she has become so popular among vikings, really I don't know. By the way the local name is not LuSia.

[@pauldevey8628]

Ibland är det dessa vanliga traditioner som ger oss en koppling till andra runt oss, såväl som komfort. Sometimes it is these traditions that give us a connection to others around us as well as comfort. No, I am not Swedish I just tried a translater.

[@johnbouttell5827]

It was originally a pagan ceremony celebrating the winter solstice, the rebirth of the sun -- and hot chocolate

[@xskramx8078]

Well you can’t call it a pagan ceremony it’s syncretic a mix of Catholic and pagan orgins it’s stupid when people try to claim it as just Christian or just pagan

[@Bicicletasaladas]

@7grains ofsalt the "only pray to Jesus and anything that remotely looks like praying to someone other than Jesus is WRONG WRONG WRONG"-type of Christianity is very recent. Ancient Christians have been asking for the intercession of the holy people that came before them through prayer (AKA the saints) for centuries. Granted, is not the same as asking for the saints to do things out of their own powers, it is implicitly assumed any effectiveness of prayer directed to them is produced by God, of which our only mediator is Jesus Christ. The saints were people extremely close to Christ in their hearts as evidenced by the lives they lead and their deeds. Finally, many of these celebrations are also claimed by each country's culture regardless of any religious origin, so oftentimes people celebrate this ancient Catholic feasts for fun and tradition and not religious reasons (because that is what they originally were, Catholic religious feasts that incorporated all those symbols, including former pagan ones as they had been endowed with a new Christian meaning.)