The President of the Regional Government of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, is the guest of honor of this year’s Great Feast of the Holy Ghost of New England, having already proved the joy of many thousands with this “return to normality” after the interruption caused by covid -19.

“I am very pleased and very happy because I saw in people a huge satisfaction with this return to normality”, declared the president on Saturday, when speaking after leading the ethnographic procession of the Great Feast of the Holy Ghost of New England.

The “love for the roots” and the “devotion to the Holy Spirit” were elements highlighted by the President of the Government, who also praised the “fraternity” of all those present, “true brothers in convivialité, without distinction” of any kind.

On Friday, at the opening of the festivities, José Manuel Bolieiro had already declared to feel “at home” in New England: “I am here as if I were at home, seeing this community experiencing our traditions with the greatest intensity”, he stressed then.

That same night, José Manuel Bolieiro was also enthroned a confrere of the first Azorean gastronomy brotherhood in the United States of America.

Today, Sunday, the President of the Government participates in the solemn mass of the Great Feast and, later, in the coronation ceremony.

On these days of work in the United States, further initiatives planned include, among others, the presentation of the Bellis Azorica editorial project for the American edition of emblematic works of the Azorean literature and the visit to an evocative exhibition by the painter Domingos Rebelo, in New Bedford.