Festival at Albany church shows growing influence of Hispanics on region - New York

Posted on: December 11th, 2006
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“As a group of children adorned in traditional garb hoisted a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe over their heads, hundreds of Hispanic parishioners filed into the church hall at Holy Family Parish Sunday to begin the yearly festival for their patron saint.

About a dozen women, all immigrants from Hispanic countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico and Bolivia, worked frantically in the kitchen, making enough chicken, rice and salad to feed the crowd.”

Source: http://www.timesunion.com
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