Outdoors Procession of St. Martin de Porres - Holy Innocents, NYC

On Sunday, September 7th, 2014, the Church of the Holy Innocents had an outdoors procession organized by the Confraternities of St. Martin de Porres (the ones in black and white) and of El Señor de los Milagros (the ones in purple). These confraternities used to meet at another chapel, but since that chapel is not available anymore (and it will be closed), they have decided to come to the Church of the Holy Innocents for Mass at 12:30pm on the first Sunday of the month.

 

Since this group started to attend the 13:30pm Mass at Holy Innocents (which is mostly in English with some of the readings, hymns, and announcements in Spanish), that Mass now gets about 50-60 more people than it did before and more money in the collection. Will there be a demand for a Mass in Spanish soon, since Spanish is obviously the language with which most of these parishioners feel more comfortable?

 

During the procession, a lot of people walking by stopped to ask what this was about and who the Saint was and why he achieved the status of holiness, etc. Most of the English-speakers with limited knowledge of Spanish traditions liked the traditional hymns the band played, as well as the robes made for the Saint and the habit of the male and female members of the Confraternities of the Devoted Brothers of St. Martin de Porres and of El Señor de los Milagros.



 

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This is a video of the procession in 2009.