by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
BROOKLYN NY, July 21 – A block from the Brooklyn Queens Expressway a four story tall, four ton monument was carried through the streets on Sunday, accompanied by trumpet players covering Frank Sinatra's New York, New York.
It was the annual Festival of the Giglio, which commemorates Saint Paolino of Nola substituting himself in slavery for a widow's only son in 409 A.D.
The feast, held in front of Our Lady of Mount Carmel church in Williamsburg, was not held in 2020 due to COVID. But it's back, and on Sunday the sausages were frying, the Manhattan Special coffee soda was cold and the head men - called Capos - came down the church steps dramatically when their names were called.
This was mid afternoon on July 21, just as from Delaware Joe Biden announced online that he was withdrawing from the Presidential election. Inner City Press, marching with the capos under the giglio, put up a video, here
some questioned the connection. Watch this site.
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