Parishioners celebrate Juquila

Costumed dancers, musicians and celebrants parade on Eigleberry Street in Gilroy Nov. 23, beginning the 10^th annual all-day celebration of the Virgin of Juquila by the parish group Comite Familias Unidas of the St. Mary Parish. The celebration dates back to 16^th century, when pilgrims began telling of healings and other miracles from the clay soil around La Juquila, a small wooden statue at a shrine at the chapel of El Pedimento in Oaxaca, Mexico.