Wrapped in colorful shawls and singing Portuguese hymns as they march 20 miles a day, nearly two dozen men are keeping a centuries-old Azorean faith tradition alive in southeastern Massachusetts. “We ...
FALL RIVER (and Portugal) — Among our “195 Things,” The Herald News has sung hymns to the Portuguese roll and malassadas, and deservedly so. But how could we forget the round, chubby delight ...
Around midnight, a group of young men, dressed in black, assembles on the Vypeen beach. One of them, 26-year-old Godson Gladwin, is carrying a large wooden cross adorned with a single strand of ...