250-year-old U.S. Easter tradition's horns silenced by coronavirus pandemic

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Every Easter Sunday for almost 250 years, residents of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have been awakened by small groups of musicians playing the hymn 'Sleepers, Wake,' before the Home Moravian church's sunrise service.

- Every Easter Sunday for almost 250 years, residents of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have been awakened by small groups of musicians playing the hymn “Sleepers, Wake,” before the Home Moravian church’s sunrise service.

The church - like many houses of worship across the United States - is following health officials’ urging to cancel all social gatherings of 10 or more people. A pastor and a small handful of musicians will gather in the church for a service that will be broadcast on local television and the internet.

Spanish flu pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide and about 675,000 Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The church has a long history of missionary work around the globe and stones at the church’s cemeteries are flat against the ground to show their universal humility and equality before God.

 

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This too will pass. Patience is a virtue, try it if you can, always in a woman, seldom in a man.

Not only that is postponed 🙄

The annual pilgrimage to the shrine at Chimayo has been cancelled as well.

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