A citywide outpouring of grief culminated on April 5, 1911, in a 100,000-strong procession behind the hearses that carried the dead along Fifth Avenue; thousands more observed the memorial gathering.
The story is strongest at its most simple: the film of the thousands-strong candlelit procession that followed the murders; the prophecies of the drag nun, Sister Boom Boom; and the reading of Milk's recording – made because he feared for his life – where he declared: "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door".
There was a strong sense of procession and a noticeable theatricality in Legorreta's designs.
On Wednesday, young activists of the nationalist Dashnaktsutyun party burned Turkish flags and led a 15,000-strong torch-lit procession in Yerevan.
Strong reveals that the procession was connected to the marriage of Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert, and Lady Anne Russell, one of the queen's six maids of honour, on 16 June 1600.
I felt a strong pull to join their procession into the Garden but resisted.
The political row is likely to be forgotten today when up to 500,000 fans are expected to throng the streets of central London from noon to watch the 30-strong squad begin its victory procession.
In 1732, during the procession preceding the funeral of Geoffrey Hornby, strong winds caused sparks to fly from the lighted tapers carried by mourners.
The intensity of the procession, plus dozens of interviews, brought to the fore the strong attachment many still felt to the man who built a nation, which, for all its faults, eradicated illiteracy, built the strongest medical system in the developing south, avoided the gang violence that plagues most of Latin America, and took a half-century stand against the most powerful nation on earth.
Although these processions were discontinued at the end of the Middle Ages, strong efforts have been made by liturgists in the 20th century to reintroduce them to promote participation by the people.
There remains a strong religious element to the festivals, but in an increasingly secular country, the church services and religious processions are often overshadowed by the riotous party element.
