Fisherman's Feast

For the last 97 years, the members of the Fisherman's Club of Boston's North End have celebrated Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca (Our Lady of Help of Sciacca, Sicily) with a big four-day festival. On Thursday evening the Madonna is taken from her home inside the Fisherman's Club, paraded around the streets, and then set in a chapel for the remainder of the feast. The next few days and nights see the streets filled with people listening to musical performances, eating all sorts of food from the vendors - fried calamari, rice balls, sausages - and enjoying other festivities.

The Feast culminates on Sunday night with the spectacular Flight of the Angel, in which a young girl is hoisted on a rope strung up between two buildings, and "flies" out and down to deliver an offering to the Madonna. I have the good fortune to live in the center of the action, in the corner building right across from the Fisherman's Club. Here is my gallery from this year's Feast. Enjoy!

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