Story and Photos Courtesy: Aleen Stanton, Florida Catholic Correspondent

WEST PALM BEACH | It was a special day at Lourdes Noreen McKeen Residence on May 17 as youngsters and adults honored Mary, the Mother of God, with a children’s procession and May crowning at the senior residence and nursing facility. Staff, volunteers, Carmelite sisters and residents sat and watched as children with their mothers and/or grandmothers carried bouquets of flowers toward the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, placing flowers at her feet. As they processed, they sang the traditional Marian crowning hymn, “Bring Flowers of the Rarest.” One of the children, Lily-Anne Nelson, climbed a ladder to place a wreath of flowers atop the Marian statue.

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