http://webclipart.about.com/od/events/ss/Saint-Lucias-Day_2.htm If your background is Scandanavian, today you are celebrating St Lucia's Day - an important Christmas celebration . St Lucia was a young Christian girl who was martyred, killed for her faith, in 304AD. The most common story told about St Lucia is that she would secretly bring food to the persecuted Christians in Rome, who lived in hiding in the catacombs under the city. She would wear candles on her head so she had both her hands free to carry things. Lucy means 'light' so this is a very appropriate name. St. Lucia's Day is now celebrated by a girl dressing in a white dress with a red sash round her waist and a crown of candles on her head. Small children use electric candles but from about 12 years old, real candles are used! (from http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/sweden.shtml) If you follow Swedish Christmas traditions, your eldest daughter would have brought you saffron an...
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