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圣事(Blessed
Sacrament)盛宴
地方性遗产
您曾听过马德拉(Madeira)这个地方吗？
马德拉是一个位于大西洋上的亚热带岛屿，座落在葡萄牙西南方约600哩处。回溯至1700年代晚期，来自麻州新贝德福德(New
Bedford)的捕鲸船会在马德拉稍做停留，补充补给品并雇用熟练的船员，为长途的捕鲸之旅做准备。捕鲸船回到新贝德福德时，船上已经带有来自于马德拉的船员，因而有许多船员定居在新贝德福德。到了现在，新贝德福德拥有美国境内最多的马德拉后裔。
因为与马德拉的特殊关系，新贝德福德举行的葡萄牙盛会是世上最大的。每年的圣事盛宴是一个连续四天的大事，它由一种名为圣事祝福(Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament)的中世纪祈祷仪式开始，后面接着一个为时两小时半的游行。庆典中会提供常规的葡萄牙食物，也有音乐表演。最初的盛宴始于1915年，仅仅是一个由四个马德拉移民所举行的宗教庆祝活动，主要是为了重现他们家乡村落的盛宴庆典。
Have you ever heard of a place named Madeira?
Madeira is a semi-tropical island in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 600 miles southwest of Portugal. As far back as the late 1700s, whaling ships from New Bedford, Massachusetts, visited Madeira for supplies and to hire skilled crews for long whaling voyages. Whale ships returning to New Bedford brought the Madeiran sailors with them, and many settled in the area. Today, New Bedford has the largest population of people with Madeiran ancestry in the United States.
Because of this connection to Madeira, New Bedford is home to the largest Portuguese feast in the world. The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is an annual four-day event that begins with the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, a medieval rite of devotion, followed by a parade that lasts two and a half hours. Traditional Portuguese food is served and music is performed. The original feast was a strictly religious celebration begun in 1915 by four immigrants from Madeira as a re-creation of the feast celebrated in their home villages.
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