Saint Lucy's Day
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الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Saint Lucy's Day
صِيَغ اسمية أخرى
Saint Lucia's Day
St. Lucia's Day
St. Lucy's Day
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Fasts and feasts
Holidays
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Wikidata:
Q883628
Library of congress:
sh2020005534
مصادر المعلومات
- Work cat.: Lucia Celebration (complete work), approximately 1964, via University of Washington Digital Collections Moving Image Collection website, viewed May 26, 2020(summary:The Saint Lucia procession begins where ladies holding candles and dressed in white are followed by one lady wearing a wreath of candles on her head. The process of assembling the candles and wreathes are shown. While the little girls get to dress up in white, the little boys also dress in white and wear pointed caps, the children get to eat cookies during the Lucia Celebration. Also featured are the floats at the Lucia parade and the process of making lefsa; creator: Radio Sweden International)
- Britannica online, May 26, 2020:St. Lucia's Day (St. Lucia's Day, holiday; St. Lucia's Day, festival of lights celebrated in Sweden, Norway, and the Swedish-speaking areas of Finland on December 13 in honour of St. Lucia (St. Lucy); The festival begins with a procession led by the St. Lucia designee, who is followed by young girls dressed in white and wearing lighted wreaths on their heads and boys dressed in white pajama-like costume singing traditional songs. The festival marks the beginning of the Christmas season in Scandinavia)
- Christmas in Sweden, via Christmas around the world website, May 26, 2020(Around Christmas time in Sweden, one of the biggest celebrations is St. Lucia's Day (or St. Lucy's Day) on December 13th. The celebration comes from stories that were told by Monks who first brought Christianity to Sweden; St Lucia's Day first became widely celebrated in Sweden in the late 1700s. St Lucia's Day is also celebrated in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Bosnia, and Croatia. In Denmark it is more a of a children's day and in some part of Italy, children are told that St Lucy brings them presents)
- sweden.se website, May 26, 2020:Culture & traditions > Lucia (The annual candlelit Lucia procession on 13 December is perhaps one of the more exotic-looking Swedish customs, with girls and boys clad in white full-length gowns singing songs together; The Lucia tradition can be traced back both to the martyr St Lucia of Syracuse (died in 304) and to the Swedish legend of Lucia as Adam's first wife)
- Happy Saint Lucy's Day in Italy!, via i-Italy website, May 26, 2020(Saint Lucy's Day is a Christian feast day celebrated on December 13, commemorating Santa Lucia, a 3rd-century martyr. The feast is a Catholic celebrated holiday with roots that can be traced back to Sicily. Throughout the country, Italians celebrate La Festa della Santa Lucia (The Feast of Saint Lucy) annually on December 13. While Santa Lucia is most popular in Scandinavia, she was born, lived, and died a martyr in Sicily. Therefore, special devotions for her take place up and down the peninsula, specifically in the north, but also in her home region of Sicily)
- Saint Lucy's Day: traditions of the world, via WWW, May 26, 2020(13 December is to celebrate Saint Lucy's Day, a Christian feast day commemorating Saint Lucy; Saint Lucy's Day is celebrated most commonly in Scandinavia, with their long dark winters, where it is a major feast day, and in Italy, with each emphasising a different aspect of the story. In Scandinavia Saint Lucy is called Santa Lucia in Norwegian and Sankta Lucia in Swedish, and she is represented as a lady in a white dress; Saint Lucy is celebrated also in the Italian regions of Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige, in the north of the country, and Sicily, in the south, but also in Croatian coastal region of Dalmatia. In Hungary and Croatia, a popular tradition on Saint Lucy's Day involves planting wheat grains that will eventually be several centimetres high on Christmas; in Saint Lucia, a tiny island in the Caribbean named after its patron saint, St. Lucy, 13 December is celebrated as National Day; celebration of St. Lucia Day is popular also among Scandinavian Americans)