In New York with the “lifters” of San Paolino: the festival of the Lily of Nola emigrates to Brooklyn

The festival of the Lilies of Nola started in style. But in Brooklyn. And not in Nola, where the celebrations in honor of the patron saint San Paolino are banned due to a pandemic. But the Nolans of Williamsburg, the part of Broccolino at the foot of the famous bridge, could not miss the great identity rite of the Elevation. Which consists in lifting and carrying in procession through the streets of the Big Apple an obelisk twenty-five meters high and weighing four tons.