Peeples Elementary Students Celebrate St. Lucia Day

2013-01-08

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Peeples Elementary School students recently experienced St. Lucia Day, which is a holiday celebrated on December 13 in Scandinavian countries.  

It is a celebration of light and music traditionally held on the longest night of the year.  The Lucia train is a procession and is led by a girl who wears candles on her head.  

Other girls in the procession wear white robes with a red sash and carry a candle.  

The boys in the procession carry a wand with a star on the end and wear a white robe and a long, pointy white cap.





PHOTO: Front row L to R: Rylie Hamilton, Chloe Millsapps, Carlee Campbell, Alexis Weist. Back row L to R: Marcelo Quinones-Vilela, Casper Krabsen Jensen, Joshua Murdock