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Lucia - A Swedish Celebration of Light

by Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius | December 2006

©Pål Allan/www.imagebank.sweden.se

The [Lucia] tradition is popularly associated with a legend of a white-clad maiden, wearing a crown of burning candles.

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