The hum of prayers being said in Spanish echoed inside the cool, softly lighted sanctuary of St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church in the East Village, where about a dozen people clutching rosary beads encircled the statue of Our Lady of Divine Providence.
The scene looked like something from the 1950s, when the devotion to La Providencia — like many of the faithful themselves — first came to New York, packing churches from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to the South Bronx.
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