Portland-area immigrant communities honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, the ‘mother of all migrants’

Parishioners trickled in through the fog before sunrise.

They took their places Friday morning among the pews at St. Matthew Catholic Church and raised their voices with the church band to honor the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, celebrated every year on Dec. 12.

Many of the 200 or so in attendance wore deeply colored shawls with depictions of the Virgin Mary as rich in tone as the Hillsboro church entrance’s stained glass…

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