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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experience a northern European Christmas Fair in the heart of San Francisco - bringing a piece of Swedish Christmas to all of us in the Bay Area for a day. A Santa Lucia choir with 80 participants ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — For those seeking a Swedish holiday at home, the Swedish Historical Society plans a traditional concert for Rockford. Hosted at the "historic" First Lutheran Church, the annual event ...

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 ...

Children and teenagers from the Neptun Synchronised Swimming Club got together to perform for the Santa Lucia festival of light in one of Stockholm's grandest pools. Children and teenagers from the ...