13th December is the feast day of Saint Lucia or Sankta Lucia as she is called in my home country of Sweden where this is still a big tradition. It's a tradition that naturally leads up to Jul/Christmas and it involves children and some adults dressing up in white clothing and either swirls of glitter or a crown made of candles on their head and singing carols. Saint Lucia was originally a Sicilian saint and Christian martyr, Lucia of Syracuse. She was killed in the last and worst persecution of Christians in the Roman empire around year 300.
The story goes that Lucia came from a wealthy Christian family but was promised to marry a non-Christian when her father died and the family was without a male guardian. She instead vowed to remain unmarried and to give her dowry to Christians who were hiding from persecution in the catacombs.
Lucia wore a crown of candles to light her way through the underground tunnels and brought food to the people hiding. The man who was meant to marry her subsequently reported her to the Roman authorities and they decided to have her sold into slavery as punishment. The legend has it that the guards who came to arrest her were not able to remove her. They then decided to kill her immediately by pouring oil over her and setting her on fire, but she wouldn't burn. They were finally able to kill her by sword. Later stories say that Lucia foretold the end of persecution before her death.
It's unclear why Saint Lucia's Day has become a lasting tradition in Sweden but it's linked to the Winter Solstice since 13th December used to fall on the Winter Solstice, now 21st December, before the Gregorian calendar was adopted. Being the darkest and coldest part of the year in the Nordic region, the Lucia tradition of lighting lots of candles and eating buns and drinking hot drinks is always welcome. There are also links to the Norse goddess Sol or Sunna who represents the sun, and in this instance the return of lighter days after the darkest days of the year.
Friday 13th is also the day of the Goddess and the celebration of the Divine Feminine, honouring the cycles of creation, death and rebirth.
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