Today all of Lima will be celebrating the Feast of Santa Rosa, the patron saint of Lima. Groups from in and around Montenegro also gathered to celebrate in style. Processions arrived from various districts carrying their decorated statues of Santa Rosa. It made for a most impressive sight.
Father Kevin McDonagh celebrated the open air Mass and would you believe it - but it just happened to be the first sunny day for months!
The Offertory procession.
At the conclusion of Mass the various groups head off to process down the main road. Some of the traditional costumes were spectacular - and worn with great dignity and pride.
As the dances made a last minute dash to join the street procession it was just all too much for one member of the congregation!
Today all of Lima will be celebrating the Feast of Santa Rosa, the patron saint of Lima. Groups from in and around Montenegro also gathered to celebrate in style. Processions arrived from various districts carrying their decorated statues of Santa Rosa. It made for a most impressive sight.
Father Kevin McDonagh celebrated the open air Mass and would you believe it - but it just happened to be the first sunny day for months!
The Offertory procession.
At the conclusion of Mass the various groups head off to process down the main road. Some of the traditional costumes were spectacular - and worn with great dignity and pride.
As the dances made a last minute dash to join the street procession it was just all too much for one member of the congregation!
The procession takes to the main road amid plenty of colour and noise, in fact each group seemed to have their own band. Not to mention plenty of people willing to set off more rockets.
I wonder if this gentleman wished he would have preferred to learn the flute or drums, may have been a little easier!
