The colorful procession of the feast is a special attraction.
The spectacle has excited scientists and bug enthusiasts, and drawn elementary school classes into open fields to watch the colorful procession.
Running footmen surrounded each litter, insulating it from the next in what was becoming a colorful procession.
It is marked by music and festivities and a colorful procession in which more than 40 caparisoned elephants participate.
Missionaries hoped and expected that people would be drawn to and participate in the colorful processions and religious dramas.
They also used to have very colorful funeral processions.
The most colorful religious processions are in northern Portugal, especially in Braga.
Within a few days the sail-enhanced skyclipper would begin its grand and colorful procession.
They came up the steps beside the tiers of rice paddies in a long, colorful procession.