The 75th annual Feast of the Holy Ghost was blessed with fair weather and good crowds at the Holy Ghost Club’s Sodom Road grounds on Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8. Eighty people filled the club Saturday night for a caciolla dinner and live music. On Sunday, a procession carrying the crown of the Holy Ghost entered the sunny grounds at noon.
Dolores Amaral serves "sopas" on Sunday.
Nearly 200 people enjoyed a free traditional Portuguese dish of sopas.
The auction that followed lunch is one of the ways the club raises money. The club and pavilion are available to rent. The club will hold a lobster and steak dinner and dance at its Sodom Road Pavilion on July 29. For more information call Andy Rutkowski at 508-678-3357
George Lewis: chief taste tester
One of the highlights of the 75th annual two day Holy Ghost Feast is Sunday’s procession
that carries the Crown of the Holy Ghost into the Sodom Road club grounds. Longtime club member and procession crown bearer Patricia St. Laurent of Tiverton, RI, died unexpectedly last week. Her grand niece Cassandra Barry of Fall River carried the crown in St. Laurent’s memory, Six week old Kacie Vieira was crowned queen of the seventh Sunday. Photo L to R Mitchell Lynch, Cassandra Barry, St. Laurent’s sister Dorothy Chretien of Fall River and Dorothy’s cousin’s infant daughter Kacie Vieira.
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