The Victor Rydberg poem, “Tomten,” is always read at the Lucia Fest of the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis.
Thursday, 15 July 2021
LUCIA PATRON SAINT OF
St Lucia of Syracuse is the patron saint of authors, blind people, blindness, cutlers,
dysentery, eye disease, eye problems, fire, glaziers, hemorrhages,
laborers, martyrs, notaries
Peasants, peddlers
Perugia Italy,
saddlers, salesmen, servant
girls
Stained glass workers, scribes, Syracuse Sicily, tailors, throat infections, virgins,
Weavers
and writers.
NO TURNING
On St.
Lucy's Day any activity involving turning motions are forbidden, including
spinning, stirring, and working a grindstone as these circular motions might
interfere with the return of the sun.
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SMOTHERED (2005)
J.J. Jenner (Carly Pope) works at a New York magazine as the assistant
to the food critic but when the critic leaves to have a baby, her boss gives
J.J. the job for a trial period, so she tries to find a new refreshing and
exciting restaurant to write about for the next addition just before Christmas.
However her estranged mother Lee (Christine Baranski) turns up out of
the blue, after losing her job and J.J. can’t deal with her.
So when Alex Stermadapolous (Bobby Cannavale) a struggling restaurateur
who is facing the possibility of being closed down, asks her to come to his
restaurant and try it out and then write about it in the magazine she agrees to
review his restaurant on the condition that he take her mother off her hands
for a few weeks.
Alex reluctantly agrees and forms an instant rapport with Lee that
amazes J.J. but what amazed her even more was that it made her jealous.
It’s a fun Christmas mother-daughter film but underneath all the comic
moments is a poignant story of intimate strangers.
It's a good holiday movie and in the Christmas spirit comes with a
satisfying ending.
ST LUCIA’S DAY MIRACLES
It is believed that on the eve of St Lucia’s day that miracles occur at the stroke of midnight.
Anyone awake at
the midnight hour might hear animals speaking or observe running water turned
into wine.
TASKING
Folklore surrounding St Lucia suggests that unfinished tasks should be completed by St Lucia’s day such as the grain from the year's harvest should be threshed and all spinning, weaving, cleaning and decorating.
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