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On Saturday, May 15, friends and parishioners of Saint Adalbert Basilica held their May Crowning after the 4 pm mass.<\/p>\n
It was a beautiful mass and experience…I was glad I was able to participate.<\/p>\n
The crowning took place outside after a procession\u00a0 to the Grotto of the Immaculate Conception adjacent to the Basilica.<\/p>\n
The grotto, constructed in 1901, is a close replica of the one in Lourdes, France<\/a>.\u00a0 It features statues of Saint Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes and depicts the apparition of Mary to Saint Bernadette<\/a>.<\/p>\n Parishioners placed intentions in the grotto along with a stone.\u00a0 Both are practices seen in other parts of the world at religious sites.\u00a0 Leaving a stone marks an individuals presence.<\/p>\n If you have never been to Saint Adalbert Basilica, the grotto is beautiful…stop by, say a prayer and leave a stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [nggallery id=81](click on images for full view) On Saturday, May 15, friends and parishioners of Saint Adalbert Basilica held their May Crowning after the 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,549,212,186],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-may-crowning","tag-our-lady-of-lourdes","tag-saint-adalbert-basilica","tag-saint-adalbert-basilica-buffalo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-1rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}