Boston’s North End kicked off a weekend of celebrations Thursday with the opening ceremonies of the 101st anniversary Feast of Santa Lucia and a procession of the saint’s statue through the ...

Irma LaBelle had to move to Two Harbors from her native Sweden -- where she was born in 1915 -- before she ever even heard of the Santa Lucia festival. "We were not real well off," LaBelle remembers.

Saint Anthony’s Feast is the largest Italian Religious Festival in New England. NORTH END, MA —Every year for four days surrounding the last Sunday in August, the North End transforms into one big ...

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