Bishop Michael Sis will join people in San Angelo and around the world to recognize the 350th Anniversary of the death of Sor Maria de Agreda, the "Lady in Blue," on Sunday, May 24. While the Lady in Blue Day has been celebrated in San Angelo for a number of years on June 20, the date of May 24 has been selected this year in solidarity with a major anniversary celebration taking place on the same day in her town of Agreda, Spain.

The seventh annual celebration in San Angelo will begin with the Procession of Flowers at 6:00 PM at Christ the King Retreat Center, 802 Ford Street, followed by the Mass of Pentecost at 6:30 PM, celebrated by Bishop Sis in the retreat center chapel. The procession will start by the Concho River on the retreat center grounds. As members of the Jumano tribe did in 1629, the procession will then follow the crosses of flowers to the chapel.

Everyone is invited to join in the procession; honored guests will be any person with Native American heritage. Historian Gus Clemens, who has presented and written on the Lady in Blue for more than 30 years, will give a short talk about Maria de Agreda prior to the Mass.