The 40th annual celebration of the Santa Lucia Festival on Dec. 10 gave people a day to access their "inner Swede." Attendees packed the Chapel at Bethany Homes in Fargo, bragged they were "all" Swede ...

Weatherwise, the day could not have been more fitting for the Santa Lucia pageant in Walnut Creek. It was cold, damp and fog enshrouded, with a bleak Bergmanesque sky that greeted the congregants who ...

When Hope Covenant Church in Orland Park hosts its annual Santa Lucia Pageant this Saturday, it will continue a local tradition that’s been developing since the last century. Helping to orchestrate ...

First Lutheran Church invites the public to celebrate Christmas the Swedish way. In the Santa Lucia Celebration, women’s a capella choir The Nashville Belles and Swedish-American families will perform ...

Two hundred people attended a Lucia event at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. NINA MOINI: In the old Swedish calendar, December 13 was the shortest day of the year. And this weekend ...

Families celebrated a Scandinavian Christmas tradition in Petaluma on Sunday, observing “Lucia Fest” with pageantry, songs and sm??rg??sbord. St. Lucia Day on Dec. 13 begins the Christmas season in ...

Swedes know a thing or two about living with light, or, right about now, living with a lack of it. In December, the country’s capital Stockholm experiences around six hours of daylight a day, but in ...

The legend says that long ago a young woman helped Christian prisoners, and for that deed the Romans had her eyes gouged out. That punishment didn’t diminish her faith in Christ, and one day, as if by ...