Here are a few photos I took last Thursday of the procession of Our Lady of Victory, the Nativity of the Blessed Mother, held in Naxxar, Malta. Incidentally they were taken when the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth was being announced. The first photo, one of my favorites, shows the statue of Mary as it approached another statue erected in the front of the local Peace Band Club, as if the two Queens of Heaven are talking about welcoming an earthly Queen. I waited to take this shot as the statue-bearers stopped briefly, enough to allow me to take this photo.
The second photo shows the same statue in front of the beautiful Baroque church, recently restored. The procession is held annually on the 8th of September in two other parishes in Malta, Senglea, Mellieħa and in Xagħra in the sister island of Gozo. They were not held over the last 2 years because of the coronavirus. The third photo shows the facade of the church itself, lit up with hundreds of little colored lights. The festa season is now coming to an end, and only major feast left is the one in Cospicua on December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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