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.

In less time than it took to hear yesterday’s Gospel, some Highlandtown churchgoers braided yellowish palm leaves into the little crosses they’ll keep for the coming year — part of a centuries-old ...

MINNEAPOLIS — As new volunteers kept streaming into the Church of the Incarnation, Reynaldo Hidalgo prepped fresh palm fronds for them to weave into elaborate designs that will be blessed at services ...

As a boy growing up in the small town of Tepalcatepec in the Mexican state of Michoacan, Esteban Torres marveled at the intricate palm weavings that artisans and priests distributed each spring. Now, ...

EASTER is fast approaching and as many are on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year's holiday is bound to be a little different. Here's how to make a palm cross. Easter is right around ...

Maria Consuelo Palapa weaves a palm frond in a traditional Mexican design with help from her son Omar, 7, at the Church of the Incarnation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. The parishioner ...