Immigrants from Mexico bring holiday celebrations, traditions to Collier

Mexican immigrants are recreating the celebrations their families had in Mexico and everyone is enjoying them.    - - Donna Poisl

By VICTORIA MACCHI

 NAPLES — Draped in a light blue veil that skimmed her ankles, 15-year-old Aday Porras sat ramrod straight atop a chocolate-colored donkey, walking down Golden Gate's streets after dark every night last week, a gaggle of carolers in tow.

"Si me ven, si me ven, voy camino de Belen," the group, 200-strong, sang in Spanish Tuesday night. "If you see, if you see me, I'm on my way to Bethlehem."

Las Posadas, a Spanish tradition carried by colonization to Mexico, continues in Collier County on the nine nights before Christmas through a group of immigrant families from St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church.
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