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5 unusual facts about Saint Lucy


Barbados Light and Power Company

BL&P is also engaged in a long term study of the feasibility of creating a wind farm off the North coast of Saint Lucy.

Cuccìa

Cuccìa is a traditional, primarily Sicilian dish containing boiled wheatberries and sugar, which is eaten on December 13, the feast day of Saint Lucy, the patron saint of Siracusa (Syracuse).

It commemorates the relief from a food shortage in Sicily and the unexpected arrival of a cargo of wheat, which tradition says arrived in the port of Palermo on Saint Lucy's Feast in 1646.

Saint Lucy, Barbados

One of the most recent ideas during the 1990s was to capitalise on a venture said to be in the works by Donald Trump in neighbouring Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Saint Lucy is known for being the only parish of Barbados out of the eleven to be named after a female patron saint, Saint Lucy of Syracuse.


Laternelaufen

Anyway, festivals of light (a category Laternelaufen could be classified into) can be found all over the world and in many cultures / traditions (e.g. Diwali, Chanukka, Saint Lucy's Day, Loi Krathong...)


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Så mörk är natten i midvintertid

The song was originally published in 1969, and has become a popular Saint Lucy song throughout Sweden.