The sun shone for three days, making for a popular and successful St. Sebastian Festival, the highlight of which is the annual nuri, a parade of Saint Sebastian devotees who literally run along Washington Street shouting praises for St. Sebastian. This tradition of honoring the martyr, who was a converted Roman centurion who was pierced with arrows, then drowned in a cesspit, goes back to medieval practices in Sicily.
Many Middletown political figures, even some without Italian surnames, joined the crowd for the festivities.
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