#religious-festival

#religious-festival

"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."

"It was chaos. People put the wounded into their cars and rushed to hospital to try to save them," a witness said.