Though the 600-pound statue of St. Ann is no longer borne on shoulders of barefoot women, the annual procession and feast honoring the Catholic Church's mother of the Virgin Mary still brings Hoboken natives back home from far and wide.

"Every year," said Mary Morin of Paramus, a member of the Hoboken High School Class of '71. "Whenever we're here. As long as we're not in Croatia, we come back."

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