When you go to the website of St. Peter’s Italian Church in Clerkenwell right now you can see the programme for this 12 months’s Procession in Honour of Our Woman of Mount Carmel, which has been happening there since 1883. It’ll in all probability be taken down quickly after the occasion, and at a while get replaced by the programme for subsequent years occasion on Sunday twenty first July 2024.
Theis 12 months it takes place this afternoon, sixteenth July 2023, and the programme has some pictures from earlier years, together with a map of the realm displaying the placement of the church on Clerkenwell Street, roughly reverse Hatton Backyard, the route of the march, this 12 months happening Leather-based Lane and throughout Greville Avenue to Return up Hatton Backyard, and the placement of the Sagra in Warner Avenue. There may be additionally a protracted record of the 38 teams within the order of the procession, the ultimate one following Our Woman of Mount Carmel being the group of Parishioners.
In fact for those who go there it is possible for you to to select up a printed copy. It’s greatest to reach in loads of time to take pleasure in an ice-cream, snack or plastic cup of wine or two on the Sagra earlier than the procession begins at 3.30pm – and you’ll return there once more after the procession. It’s an occasion the place everyone seems to be welcome and there aren’t any tickets or reserving required.
The pavement on Clerkenwell Street will get very crowded so until you might be tall you’ll want to get there at the very least a couple of minutes earlier than the begin to discover a good place to face, although as soon as the top of the procession has gone previous you may stroll to see it coming again to the church.
Many additionally go into the church properly earlier than the procession and even for those who don’t want to pray it’s value a go to. In response to the website it has been described as “one of the stunning church buildings in London“. When inbuilt 1863 its “Irish architect John Miller Bryson labored from plans drawn by Francesco Gualandi of Bologna, modelled on the Basilica of San Crisogno in Rome.” And whereas it might not be totally to my style it’s actually outstanding.
As too is the procession, with its floats on lorries and strolling teams in costumes associated to the lifetime of Jesus , the primary communicants, and varied teams and associations, some carrying the heavy statues from the church adorned for the event.
Our Woman of Mount Carmel is among the titles of the Virgin Mary, who was adopted because the patroness of the Carmelite Order which was begun by hermits on Mt Carmel in Palestine across the finish of the twelfth century. July 16 turned the liturgical feast of Our Woman of Mount Carmel and the procession takes place on the closest Sunday – and this 12 months, as in 2017, it’s on the precise saint’s day.
The images listed here are all from Sunday sixteenth July 2017 – and there are numerous extra on My London Diary at Processione della Madonna del Carmine in addition to extra from different years.
You may as well see the images I made the primary 12 months I went to the competition, in 1992, in an album on Flickr with 50 black and white and 19 color footage. In some methods I feel this stays the perfect set of photographs I’ve fabricated from the occasion through the years.
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