Before I spent Holy Week in the Azores seven years ago, what little I knew about the islands and their people was based on my husband’s tales of having been stationed there as a lieutenant in the Portuguese Navy. I had my own later experience of the Azorean community in California, and its festival of the Holy Spirit. That traditional celebration begins on Pentecost an (...)
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