At Larose's Bakery on Broad Street in New Britain, Paul Krancicki, 43, deep fries paczki, a popular Polish pastry that resembles a donut or bagel. The traditional pastry is savored on Fat Tuesday before the beginning of Lent.
On Fat Tuesday in New Britain it’s the succulent Polish paczki at Larose’s Bakery. On Ash Wednesday in Hartford, it’s a Portuguese mass at Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima.
Father Antonio Jorge Tchingui blesses Zachary Gacome, 2, on the forehead with ashes during a noontime Ash Wednesday mass at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Hartford. Fr. Tchingui is the Portuguese-speaking pastor of Our Lady of Fatima.