Saint Patrick's Day in the United States County Division's St. Patrick's Day Parade has more than 130 entries and lasts more than 90 minutes as it snakes through downtown and the Old Market. Pearl River attracts a crowd of 100,000 people, making it the second largest parade in New York state behind the New York City Parade. The parade started in 1963. The St. Patrick Society sponsors a St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party on March 17 of each year. The Parade participants march along the designated parade route through downtown Peoria. Awards are presented in the following parade categories: Business Entries, Family Entries, and Organizational Entries.
Alexander Day (artist) Adonis", Raphael's "St. Catharine" and the "Madonna, Infant Christ, and St. John" (the "Aldobrandini Madonna"), Leonardo da Vinci's "Christ disputing with the Doctors", Domenichino's "S. Jerome and the Angel", Annibale Carracci's "Christ appearing to Simon Peter after his Resurrection", and Gaspard Poussin's "Landscape with Abraham and Isaac", which are now in the National Gallery. His portrait miniatures of ladies are particularly graceful. Day purchased from the Borghese collection Annibale Carracci's "Temptation of St Anthony", and, in 1792 Andrea Mantegna's "Adoration of the Shepherds", which William Buchanan sold to Richard Payne Knight at Downton Castle. Day died in Chelsea, London on