{"id":8321,"date":"2025-12-13T01:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:36:22","slug":"photos-carriage-rides-offer-magical-tour-through-celebration-of-lights-in-la-salle-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8321","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Carriage rides offer magical tour through Celebration of Lights in La Salle. &#8211; Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/shawmedia\/34QQ2NCIR5DC3GFXJNEAY4WT4I.jpg?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>Dancers performe during the Our Lady of Guadalupe vigil Chichimeca dance on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2025 at St. Patrick&#x27;s Catholic Church in La Salle. The Chichimeca dance is a vibrant, Indigenous-rooted devotional tradition where dancers (Danzantes) perform to honor the Virgin Mary&#x27;s appearance to Juan Diego in 1531, symbolizing faith, hope, and cultural fusion, often involving elaborate costumes, feathers, and drumming, leading up to the main Feast Day on December 12th, with celebrations happening globally in parishes. <br \/>Got a news tip? Email <a href=\"mailto:ntnewsroom@shawmedia.com\">ntnewsroom@shawmedia.com<\/a><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2023 Shaw Local News Network<br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2023 Shaw Local News Network<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiYEFVX3lxTE1nb1A2Szd5T1g4cTZiY1FleXU1Q1NIYXNNNG9lQmxkZXlRdW1XWnJMUzZrTUhZRDVLenN0am5yZ3ZVbExENFNFakYxTU01dTc4MlVKTnFrQ1FkRi1kdHNacQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancers performe during the Our Lady of Guadalupe vigil Chichimeca dance on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2025 at St. Patrick&#x27;s Catholic Church in La Salle. The Chichimeca dance is a vibrant, Indigenous-rooted devotional tradition where dancers (Danzantes) perform to honor the Virgin Mary&#x27;s appearance to Juan Diego in 1531, symbolizing faith, hope, and cultural fusion, often involving elaborate costumes, feathers, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}