STAN MULAIK ha scritto:

>
>A mercuridi nos habeva un dinner in le urbo de St. Charles pro honorar
>Dr. Joreskog.  Durante le dinner su filia, su sposa e le sposa de su
>assistante Dr. Sorbom, se vestiva in robas blanc, e le filia las duceva
>con un corona de candelas super su capite, e illas cantava "Santa Lucia"
>in svedese.  Kjell, qui es Santa Lucia?
>

Si io potera esser utile vos debe saper que le 13 decembre passate era le die
de Santa Lucia e que le reliquias de iste Santa es conservate in mi Venetia in
un templo que es a illa dedicate.

Mario

Ab le Britannica in Babylon e vide le conclusion re le Svedia:

Lucy, Saint
d. 304, Syracuse, Sicily; feast day December 13
Italian SANTA LUCIA, virgin and martyr who was one of the earliest Christian
saints to achieve popularity, having a widespread following before the 5th
century. She is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse (Sicily). Because of
various traditions associating her name with light, she came to be thought of
as the patron of sight and was depicted by medieval artists carrying a dish
containing her eyes.
According to apocryphal texts, Lucy came from a wealthy Sicilian family.
Spurning marriage and worldly goods, however, she vowed to remain a virgin in
the tradition of St. Agatha. An angry suitor reported her to the local Roman
authorities, who sentenced her to be removed to a brothel and forced into
prostitution. This order was thwarted, according to legend, by divine
intervention; Lucy became immovable and could not be carried away. She was
next
condemned to death by fire, but she proved impervious to the flames. Finally,
her neck was pierced by a sword and she died.
In actuality, Lucy was probably a victim of the wave of persecution of
Christians that occurred late in the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
References to her are found in early Roman sacramentaries and, at Syracuse, in
an inscription dating from AD 400. As evidence of her early fame, two churches
are known to have been dedicated to her in Britain before the 8th century,
at a
time when the land was largely pagan.
One of the patron saints of virgins, St. Lucy is venerated on her feast day,
December 13, by a variety of ceremonies. In Sweden, St. Lucia's Day marks the
beginning of the Christmas celebration. On that day the eldest daughter of the
family traditionally dresses in a white robe and wears as a crown an evergreen
wreath studded with candles.