ARCATA — An important feature of the Portuguese ... devotion to the Holy Spirit in the 14th century. She vowed to give her jeweled crown to the Church of the Holy Ghost in Lisbon if God would ...

The ceremony was the precursor of a feast that would feed hundreds of people the next day and was the start of the Holy Ghost Festival, celebrated by the Portuguese Azorean community worldwide.

The Holy Ghost Festa, or Festa do Espirito Santo, carries on a Portuguese tradition important ... She would walk the streets placing her crown on the heads of children, according to Doris ...

FERNDALE — The annual Holy Ghost ... hunger. Portuguese Queen Isabella came out of her castle to walk among her people and comfort them. To soothe the children, she took the crown from her ...

For the last century, the Vallejo SCDES organization, (Society of the Crown of the Divine Holy Ghost) has worked to preserve and celebrate Portuguese culture, holding Mass crab feeds and dances in ...

Kennedy’s Azorean Refugee Act kicked off the second great wave of Portuguese immigration to ... the music stage, the lit Holy Ghost crown. He says: “They come from Canada, from Portugal ...

For a century the Portuguese community in San Diego has celebrated the Festa do Divino Espírito Santo, or Feast of the Holy Spirit ... where the queen’s crown was placed on the chapel altar.

she would celebrate by placing her own crown on the head of the purest of peasant girls. The Portuguese have celebrated the miracle each year during the Holy Ghost celebration.