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Brick Parade( St. Marys Assumption Church New Orleans) Clip #2 This is the actual date of the 150th anniversary. The Brick Parade began at 6:30pm Thursday June 24th 2010. The parishioners gathered at …More
Brick Parade( St. Marys Assumption Church New Orleans)
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This is the actual date of the 150th anniversary. The Brick Parade began at 6:30pm Thursday June 24th 2010. The parishioners gathered at the park to witness and participate.
"Brick Parade" - to commemorate how our ancestor woman carried bricks to the site of St. Mary's Church in their aprons. When the horse-drawn wagons bogged down in the mud the women trudged their way through the mud to the wagons, loaded their aprons, and brought them to the construction site. That's why we are selling aprons along with the T-shirts.
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😇 Brilliant.Interesting to know the history about why everyone is carrying a brick.150 years ago when the church of St Mary Assumptionwas being built by German immigrants in New Orleans,the wagons carrying the bricks couldn't get near the church due to the mud.The women of the Parish went out to meet the wagons and carried the bricks in their aprons to the church so it could be built.Now 150 …More
😇 Brilliant.Interesting to know the history about why everyone is carrying a brick.150 years ago when the church of St Mary Assumptionwas being built by German immigrants in New Orleans,the wagons carrying the bricks couldn't get near the church due to the mud.The women of the Parish went out to meet the wagons and carried the bricks in their aprons to the church so it could be built.Now 150 years later they are re-inacting this historic event.This is also the Church where Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos was serving when he died.Blessed Seelos was born here. 🤗 👍 🙂