Boston’s oldest steady Italian pageant wrapped up Sunday after an one other eventful weekend of meals, music and flying angels.
The final day of the 113th Fisherman’s Feast noticed one other day full of Italian tradition and the well-known annual “flight of the angel.”
The feast traces it’s origins again to 1503 when over 200 Italian fishermen made a harmful trek to get a strong marble statue of the Madonna del Soccorso, or Lady of Perpetual Help, to Sciacca, Sicily.
Descendants of the fisherman introduced their traditions to the U.S. within the early 1900’s, honoring and recreating the historic journey with a procession of the Madonna del Soccorso statue by the North End. This spectacular confetti-heralded “Flight of the Angel” procession arrived once more Sunday night time.
On Friday, the historic pageant was plagued with a spree of underaged ingesting, police reported. Officers arrested one particular person Friday night time, summonsed 5 to courtroom, and have been working by at the least 20 studies on underage ingesting incidents, the Herald beforehand reported.
One police report famous the North End has had “an abundance of complaints” relating to underage publicly ingesting at festivals within the space and inflicting disturbances.
On Sunday, a BPD spokesperson stated there had been no additional underage ingesting incidents.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”