1. Split the palm leaf crosswise to create two pieces, one the desired length of the cross and the other the length of its arms. 2. With your nail, puncture a hole in the longer piece large enough to ...

Palm Sunday is the first day of the Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter. One long-standing Palm Sunday tradition is to take home palms from that day's church service and weave them into ...

NEW HAVEN — The women at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church are back in force this year, braiding blessed palm into crosses. “Two years ago was a skeleton year. It was just Jeanie and Peggy,” said Olga ...

As a child, Mary Altieri, 95, of New Haven, was taught by nuns in the early 1940's how to weave palm crosses from palm fronds. She has since taught the art to about a dozen women, mostly now seniors.