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MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo
Sara Favazza, left, greets her old friend Grace Taromina on Monday evening at the start of the annual St. Peter's Fiesta Novena -- nine successive nights of prayer that finish the night before the Fiesta, which begins next Wednesday in Gloucester. Favazza, 84, is the daughter of Salvatore Favazza, who in 1927 commissioned the making of the St. Peter statue that still presides over the annual festival.

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