Santa Lucia

A festival of light at the darkest time of the year, involving young women and men dressed in white flowing robes, carrying candles or with candles on their head.  One of the girls represents Saint Lucia, and leads the rest in the procession. They sing beautifully.
As always it was a lovely and very moving ceremony.
There were a lot of recent arrivals in the audience, from Syria and Eritrea, doing their best to get started learning Swedish with the help of volunteers. I wonder what they made of it all. The first year I saw it I was completed knocked out, and I still find it impressive even after all these years.
JanHar links to a short video.