Janice Luongo can remember a time when the Saint Anthony's Feast looked a little different. When the men all wore suits and women wore dresses. "You didn't wear jeans," Luongo says. During a 12-hour procession alongside the holy statue of Saint Anthony, women walked barefoot around the North End as a show of sacrifice.

"It's not like what it was when we were growing up," Luongo, 67, said. "But our traditions are still wonderful. Our grandparents, when they came from Italy, were the ones who made this."