An Old Brooklyn Church Seeks New Muscle to Save a Tradition

The gentrification of Brooklyn, N.Y., has come to this: For the first time in 116 years, Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been forced to actively recruit men to hoist a four-ton tower on poles and dance it down the street in the middle of summer.

Since 1903, hundreds of the church’s congregants have locked arms and carried the multistory tower, called the “Giglio,” through the Williamsburg neighborhood during a July festival honoring an Italian saint. The Giglio, adorned with religious icons and faintly resembling a wedding cake,...

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It would be sad to see that tradition die. I'm glad they've found a way to keep it going.

nobody except poor people and dumb blacks care about gentrification lmao

If you have to recruit outsiders to 'keep your tradition going,' clearly your tradition doesn't matter enough to ur ppl to matter if it dies. That is, if you even have 'a people.' Being Italian-American isn't really a thing anymore. Sincerely, Half-Italian American Guy

Who really cares ?

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The Catholic Church is anti-US/Israel and has a communist pope. John Paul II, the Pope who promoted and covered up pedophiles CatholicChurch sect

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