In honor of the annual Crowning Feast of the Holy Spirit which begins tonight, today’s Gloucester Motif Monday is a legacy one.
Good Morning Gloucester is an indisputable platform for outreach and community. A couple of years ago, because of research I was doing about Gordon Parks in Gloucester and thankfully Joey posted on Good Morning Gloucester, I was able to interview Manny Carrancho. Manny and his family spent considerable time giving me a detailed account of earlier events in their lives. They shared treasured historic photos and first hand knowledge and were a delight.
This week I’ll feature photographs from a souvenir picture album in Manny’s collection as they feature Our Lady of Good Voyage and one of the Madonna statues. The photographs are from a booklet: Coronation Our Lady Of Good Voyage, produced with cooperation of the Portuguese Daily News and photography by Hollywood Studio, New Bedford, MA. You will see the Our Lady statue on the vessel Gil Eannes with Bishop Don Manuel Salguiero. Its special arrival is met by a town procession led by Arch Bishop Wright and dignitaries at the State Pier. Twelve fishermen were selected to greet them. Let us know if you recognize family in the photographs. Were you there?
news edit: Brenda Mason Budrow writes that the little girl in one photo is Mary Jean (Ribeiro) Mason, her mom. Thanks, Brenda!
Tonight: the Crowning Feast of the Holy Spirit begins May 9th 2016 in Our Lady’s Church.
More photos to come.
Part 2 photos of the greeting on the vessel and carrying the 600lb statue
Part 3 photos in the church and background on the Gil Eannes and the statue
“when the crown is entrusted to this year’s Imperator, Bart Piscitello, and his wife, Mary, as part of a special ceremony. The festivities will continue according to the following schedule of events throughout the week.” Please visit Catholic Community of Gloucester and Rockport for information and details.
Manny Simoes photographs this special week, and posts his coverage on Good Morning Gloucester. There’s information about the church and a brief introduction about the Crowning with pictures from 2012 by Lise Breen on the HarborWalk.
Good Morning Gloucester 
The little girl placing flowers at the feet of Our Lady of Good Voyage is my Mom Mary Jean (Ribeiro) Mason.
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Thank you, Brenda. I will add that in above as a photo caption! What was her dad’s name?
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Captain David Ribeiro, owner and Captain of the Edith L. Boudreau.
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Oh, yes! I have read about the Edith L Boudreau. Beautiful day. thank you for taking a moment to comment.
I may have a question (or two !)
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Our lady of Good Voyage was restored in the Boston Sculpture Studio of Arcangelo Casiceri and Adio di Biccari which i trained and worked in for many years.
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Thank you, David, for adding in. Could their names be more apt?
When you have a moment, can you let GMG readers know which Our Lady statue you mean? This one or another of the Madonnas inside the church, or the beautiful Angelo Lualdi sculpture we see gracing the top (now a replica with the original in the Cape Ann Museum.)
I wonder what they worked on which you enjoyed seeing or helping with, and something you remember from their teaching.
Sign up for one of David’s wood carving classes here Calvo Studio https://www.davidcalvo.com/
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It is the once wood carved statue that sits atop of the church. The statue was in our studio for a while and it had to be reworked because the base wood was so rotten. It was then cast and put back in place and, as you state, the original was put in the museum. Adio use to always tell me he was a thirty year old trapped in a seventy-two year old body. He always treated me like a son and brought me to the outside garden whenever he wanted to make a sculptural point about design because he said all the fundamentals were rooted in nature itself.
Years later, i was in Walker Hancock’s studio in Lanesville and Walker said that there had been a book written about Adio’s life. He said it was on the kitchen table if i wanted to take a look at it. I have a tendency to go to the last page of books because I always think that the author makes their big point once they feel they have gotten your total attention. On the last page was a letter I had written Adio many years after i left the studio. I had said in it that he taught my hands what they do everyday and that i was eternally grateful to him as a teacher and friend. Truth be told, It was in that moment that I realized that I had meant as much to him… as he did to me in my life.
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‘Fundamentals rooted in nature itself’ beautiful reminiscences of master sculptor/artist. Thanks, David
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