The 109th annual Feast of Saint Agrippina flooded the North End with Italian delicacies, music and leisure, kicking off a month of celebrations.
An opening ceremony and procession for the Saint Agrippina feast was held on Thursday. The four-day celebration honors Saint Agrippina di Mineo, the patron saint of thunderstorms, evil spirits, and leprosy. Legend states she was martyred and tortured to loss of life in 256 A.D. by the emperor Valerian.
Children of the Saint Agrippina Society led Thursday night time’s procession, ushering in three consecutive days of reside leisure, DJs, raffles, and a myriad of distributors. Streets had been lined with pink, white and gold confetti, with non secular relics and statues on show.
On Sunday, the competition’s grand procession wound by way of the neighborhood.
The North End might be dwelling to feasts for the remainder of the month, with the Madonna Della Cava Feast going down Aug. 11-12 on Hanover and Battery Streets. The Madonna Della Cava Feast is all the time held in Boston the second weekend in August, coinciding with the competition held in Sicily.
The Fisherman’s Feast, which celebrates immigrant Sicilian fishermen to the Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca, might be held from Aug. 17-20. This 12 months’s 113th iteration of the competition will embrace the fifth annual Best Meatball Competition and might be closed out with the ‘Flight of the Angel,’ a spectacle that has been lauded by National Geographic as one “not to be missed.”
Saint Lucy’s Feast and Saint Anthony’s Feast wrap up the month of celebrations from Aug. 24-27.
Both feasts have been round for greater than 100 years and are headlined this 12 months by a gap procession that options the blessing of Saint Lucia accompanied by road bands, a colour guard and flower women. Patrons can even go to the Filippo Berio tasting tent to attempt quite a lot of balsamic, olive oil, pesto and extra. The Benvenuti Parade that includes marching bands will happen on Aug. 26, following the blessing of the relic of Saint Anthony.
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