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mArC meISTrICH GIDAl Approximately eight hundred brazilians, Portuguese, and other Catholics gathered outside St. James Church in Newark, New Jersey, on a mild Sunday morning in october 2013. They convened for a procession, mass, and festival to celebrate the Virgin mary in her advocation of our lady of Aparecida, the patroness of brazil. Her clay statue had appeared in 1717 to river fishermen in Aparecida, a town in the state of São Paulo, which became a major pilgrimage site. During the procession through a neighborhood called the Ironbound, in the center of Newark's lusophone (i.e., Portuguese-speaking) community, the small replica statue of the Virgin mary, with a dark blue robe and gold crown, was carried next to a tall cream-colored statue of mary as our lady of Fátima, the patroness of Portugal, who is also venerated in brazil.1 In front of the two statues' palanquins, parishioners carried flags of the Vatican, brazil, Portugal, and the united States, as well as a banner to Saint James (see Figure 1). While processing through the neighborhood, devotees sang marian hymns in Portuguese to our lady of Nazareth and apparitions significant in the lusophone world: our lady of Aparecida, our lady of
American Music – University of Illinois Press
Published: Sep 11, 2016
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