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SANTA LUCIA |
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The Lucia tradition comes
from Sweden and is celebrated by the Swedish speaking minority in Finland. The celebration remembers the holy
Lucia who died on the 13th December 304. According to Nordic
tradition, all the farming work had to be done before Lucia’s night and the
beginning of the winter. The first Lucia was Barbro
Wallgren 1950, since then a young girl is elected every year by the
public to be Lucia and becomes her crown in the Cathedral of Helsinki on the
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Andrea Mattson |
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Finlands Lucia 2002 |
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