St Lucia's Day

While attempting to develop my holiday card, I've learned quite a bit about the Swedish holiday of St Lucia's Day. Celebrated on the 13th of December, it is dedicated to a christian saint, Lucia, who was put to death because of her faith. As the tale goes, she would bring food and water to the persecuted Christians in the catacombs beneath Rome. She would wear candles about her head to keep her hands free for carrying and so that the refugees would be able to see her coming in the darkness below. Their Christmas traditions are very similar to our own, but their "Santa Claus" is called "Jultomten" or just "Tomten" and looks more like a small gnomish character who drives a sleigh of goats rather than a large round man driving a sleigh of reindeer.