Stratford Lutheran Church, 812 Teneyck Ave., Stratford, is holding Svenska Klubben Christmas luncheon at noon today. There will be a short program for Luciadagen (St. Lucia Day), one of Sweden’s most ...

LOVERS OF ALL THINGS SWEDISH CAN STILL CATCH THE FEAST OF ST. LUCIA, A BELOVED SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION in Bay Ridge.

St. Lucy, whose feast day is Dec. 13, is said to have brought food to Christians hiding in the Roman catacombs.

Growing up in Sweden, Emma Bengsston was always cast as a gingersnap man, never the candle-crowned St. Lucia selected to head the train of children walking from house to house through her village each ...

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 Wyeth Tootle Mansion hosted its annual Christmas Doll Tea Sunday afternoon. The American Girl Doll books are based around young girls in different periods of American history. Every year, the tea ...

Dec. 13 marked Sankta (Santa or Saint) Lucia Day for some diehard Scandinavians like myself, who wish to commemorate the virgin Christian martyr Lucia of Syracuse, who was known to have brought food ...

Spend just a few days on St. Lucia and it becomes clear why the British and French fought over this small, secluded isle for more than 150 years. In addition to being ideally situated in the Windward ...