By ROMEO P. MARQUEZ

Member, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)

and National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC)

A Filipino tradition that's happily being practiced in Toronto is the devotion to the Blessed Mother Mary. Yesterday, devotees held their semi-religious procession – Santacruzan it is called in the Philippines – around the streets surrounding the Our Lady of the Assumption Church on Bathurst Street.

Here's a video of that event sponsored by the Archdiocesan Filipino Catholic Mission and joined in by 21 young girls (white-robed angels), beauty queens and the Knights of Columbus. 

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