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Italian Church parade

Posted on by royvickery |

2014-07-20 14.37.53The ‘historic Procession in Honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel’ took place in Clerkenwell, London, on Sunday 20 July 2014.  Organised by St Peter’s Italian Church in Clerkenwell Road, the procession was first held in 1883, and consists of a series of tableaux depicting various biblical scenes, carried statues of saints, walkers representing Italian groups based at St Peter’s and elsewhere, and culminating in the motor-borne statue of Our Lady, which spends the rest of the year in St Peter’s church.

Image:  statues of saints, decorated with flowers, awaiting the procession.

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