\nThe confrontation erupted when roughly 18 "street preachers" protested the Catholics’ prayerful celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The annual 10-day event of prayer and devotions concludes each year on Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption, the date Catholics mark the assumption of Mary into heaven. <\/p>\n
The street preachers, however, showed up to distribute leaflets criticizing Catholics for what they called "Mary-worship in the Roman Church." <\/p>\n
They also distributed leaflets criticizing the concept of the assumption as counter to biblical truth. <\/p>\n
A crowd of about 250 young males then descended on the roughly 18 street preachers, shouting, shoving, throwing water bottles and stones, tearing up the protesters’ literature and seizing their signs. <\/p>\n
The pilgrimage to the Carey church and shrine has been an annual event for 130 years, and typically attracts 10,000-12,000 people. <\/p>\n
But in the past five years the street preachers have come to protest, and the Catholics’ resentment has been building. <\/p>\n
The preachers come to the village on Aug. 14 to protest, Yingling said, and spend about two to three hours standing on public property — three street corners around the main church, located on Clay Street. They don’t block intersections; they preach and they offer literature "only to those who want it," he added. <\/p>\n
"The street preachers are acting within their rights," Yingling said, as they are protected by the Constitution’s right to free speech. <\/p>\n
Throughout this week’s situation, the preachers remained "totally in control," Yingling said. <\/p>\n
After the initial violent outbreak this week, the street preachers were escorted by law enforcement officers back to the Municipal Building, where they had parked their vehicles. <\/p>\n
But as they were walking back to their vehicles, "the melee continued," Yingling said. <\/p>\n
The preachers were escorted by nine Carey police officers, nine deputies from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Department and two Ohio Highway Patrol officers. <\/p>\n
And that may be what is most alarming for Carey officials: They knew the protesters were coming, they prepared for them and they still had trouble. <\/p>\n
"We anticipated this this year and we couldn’t stop it," Yingling said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What I didn’t know, but thanks to a reader do now, is that this pilgrimage is of special import to Chaldeans, who anticipated 5000 of their own attending.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may recall me blogging about a riot at an Assumption pilgrimage at the Our Lady of Consolation shrine in Carey, Ohio. Well, the full picture of the events is taking shape: An article in which law enforcement describes what happened: The confrontation erupted when roughly 18 "street preachers" protested the Catholics’ prayerful celebration of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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