Sankta Lucia
Mon, Nov 29
|Ascension Chapel (2nd floor), Founders
Augustana's annual celebration with traditional Scandinavian Christmas carols, lessons, and poetry.
Time & Location
Nov 29, 2021, 7:00 PM CST
Ascension Chapel (2nd floor), Founders, 820 38th St, Rock Island, IL 61201, USA
About the Event
Augustana's annual celebration of the Festival of Sankta Lucia commemorates the holiday with traditional Scandinavian Christmas carols, lessons and poetry.
NOTE: Lucia is held in Ascension Chapel this year, which is on the second floor of Founders Hall. There is no elevator. Instead, there is a single chair lift. Please plan to arrive early. Visitors must be masked.
The Sankta Lucia Festival is a cherished tradition of the Advent season in all the Nordic countries. A candlelight procession of singers is led by a young woman robed in white with a crown of candles on her head, to commemorate the martyred St. Lucy (d. 304 AD), whose feast day is Dec. 13.
Over the centuries, this Sicilian saint from the early Catholic Middle Ages has become a fixture in Lutheran Sweden, where she came to represent the return of light to the dark, cold winter season and point toward the…