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1 week agoBrooklyn's annual Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast blends faith, tradition in local celebration
"Our Lady, in the year 1251, on July 16th, gave the scapula to Saint Simon as a gift and a promise of her assistance and prayer and our devotion to her," said Philip Franco, emcee and chairman of the event. "So for well over 800 years, it's been a big part of Catholicism."
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