[responsive_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip2zc9DuZZI] Santa Maria Di Anzano was honored today with its annual procession on the first weekend in June through the streets of the North End. Sponsored by the Societa Santa Maria Di Anzano Inc., the procession starts the summer tradition of religious festivals and feasts. The video above captures scenes from today’s procession which Read More…
On March 27, 2011, Suffolk University’s Alumni Association hosted a lecture at the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel on the religious festivals from the time of ancient Italy and how they have endured in today’s North End. The well-attended event featured Suffolk University history professor Dr. Matteo Casini and Dr. Augusto Ferraiuolo, author of Religious Festive Read More…
Ending the North End’s summer of religious tributes to patron saints is the Santa Rosalia Di Palmero Society with a mass and procession on Sunday September 12, 2010. Born in 1130 and dying young in 1166, was a rich an noble maiden of Palermo’s Norman origin, Rosalia Sinibaldi. Rosalia retreated to a mountain, presumably as Read More…
Congratulations to the Feast Committee of San Antonio Di Padova Da Montefalcione, Inc. for a terrific three days at the 91st Saint Anthony’s Feast on Endicott, Thacher & N. Margin Streets. Also included are photos from the Thursday night BBQ where there was a film showing of “50 Years of the St. Anthony’s Feast” on Read More…
Freeway says it has been one heck of a summer. You couldn’t ask for more. The weather has been beautiful, warm and sunny. I can’t believe after this weekend the feasts are over. Talking about the feasts, my human companion took me for a short walk and she stopped at La Summa Restaurant on Fleet Read More…
Schedule Addition: NEMPAC Play – Saturday & Sunday at 1:30pm This play gives a historical account of the feast and how it came to the North End. The Gloucester statue of St. Peter — the patron saint of fishermen, and a centerpiece for the annual St. Peters’s Fiesta each June — will be hitting the Read More…
This weekend, the Saint Agrippina di Mineo Benefit Society celebrated their annual Feast in honor of Saint Agrippina on the corner of Hanover & Battery Streets. Saint Agrippina Di Mineo was a beautiful blond princess who was unmercifully tortured to death by the Emperor Valerian in 256 AD. After her death, her body was taken Read More…
The Saint Anthony Society has rolled out a new website, www.StAnthonysFeast.com, for its famous Saint Anthony’s Feast which is scheduled this year for August 27-29, 2010. The site is filled with schedule information, photos, videos and historical information on St. Anthony of Padua and the feast itself which has been celebrated annually since 1919 on Read More…
June 6, 2010 – Santa Maria Di Anzano 2:00 Procession only – Hanover & Prince Streets (Click for feast website.) June 13, 2010 – Saint Anthony of Padua 2:00 Procession – St. Leonard Church start (Hanover & Prince Streets) 4:00pm Blessing of the Children (Nazzaro playground with food/drink) June 27, 2010 – Society of Saint Read More…
This year marks the 90th Saint Anthony’s Feast in the North End, sponsored by the Saint Anthony’s Society. The annual feast will take place August 28 – 31 on Endicott, Thatcher & N. Margin Streets. The feast honors the patrons Saint Anthony and Saint Lucy with colorful parades, religious services, strolling singers, live entertainment and Read More…