A New York City ethnography that explores men\'s unique approaches to Catholic Devotion Every Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement of the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Its crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, where the men lift a seventy-foot tall, four-ton tower through the streets,.
Each year the parish hosts the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola.
A New York City ethnography that explores men\'s unique approaches to Catholic Devotion Every Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement of the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
