Mariachi Band for Our Lady of Guadalupe
and Mexican Immigrant Family St Casimir Church
8223 Sowinski Ave, Cleveland 44103 December 13, 2015
Veronica Dahlberg is Executive Director of HOLA, a small, grassroots Latino organization based in NE Ohio focusing on Advocacy, Community Organizing and Civic Engagement. She spoke in front of St Casimir Catholic Church in Cleveland where she and others gathered to pray for a Miracle from the Polish icon Our Lady of Czestochowah and her Mexican counterpart Our Lady of Guadalupe to keep the family of Carmen Camarillo of Painesville together.
7 of the 8 children of Carmen Camarillo outside St Casimir Church
7 of the 8 children of Mr. Camarillo were on hand with friends and supporters to pray that the 17 year resident would not be deported and the family broken up.
Mariachi Santa Cecilia of Painesville performed at the historically Polish St Casimir Church in Cleveland to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a large number of Mexican immigrants.
Mariachi Santa Cecilia
This is a traditional Happy Birthday song to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The band played two more songs outside the Church.
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The group went inside the Church for Mass and Fr. Eric Orzech, Pastor of the historically Polish St Casimir Church in Cleveland, welcomes the crowd of Polish, Mexican and others to the Church to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He said "God's providence has brought us together."
Fr. Eric Orzech
Mariachi Santa Cecilia of Painesville performed this song inside the church to the familiar tune of Cielito Lindo.
After the performace and before Mass, Joe Feckanin, a parishioner at St Casimir Church, spoke to the crowd about praying for a miracle and how important praying the Rosary is.
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