You may recall me blogging about a riot at an Assumption pilgrimage at the Our Lady of Consolation shrine in Carey, Ohio. Well, the full picture of the events is taking shape:

An article in which law enforcement describes what happened:

The confrontation erupted when roughly 18 "street preachers" protested the Catholics’ prayerful celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The annual 10-day event of prayer and devotions concludes each year on Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption, the date Catholics mark the assumption of Mary into heaven.

The street preachers, however, showed up to distribute leaflets criticizing Catholics for what they called "Mary-worship in the Roman Church."

They also distributed leaflets criticizing the concept of the assumption as counter to biblical truth.

A crowd of about 250 young males then descended on the roughly 18 street preachers, shouting, shoving, throwing water bottles and stones, tearing up the protesters’ literature and seizing their signs.

The pilgrimage to the Carey church and shrine has been an annual event for 130 years, and typically attracts 10,000-12,000 people.

But in the past five years the street preachers have come to protest, and the Catholics’ resentment has been building.

The preachers come to the village on Aug. 14 to protest, Yingling said, and spend about two to three hours standing on public property — three street corners around the main church, located on Clay Street. They don’t block intersections; they preach and they offer literature "only to those who want it," he added.

"The street preachers are acting within their rights," Yingling said, as they are protected by the Constitution’s right to free speech.

Throughout this week’s situation, the preachers remained "totally in control," Yingling said.

After the initial violent outbreak this week, the street preachers were escorted by law enforcement officers back to the Municipal Building, where they had parked their vehicles.

But as they were walking back to their vehicles, "the melee continued," Yingling said.

The preachers were escorted by nine Carey police officers, nine deputies from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Department and two Ohio Highway Patrol officers.

And that may be what is most alarming for Carey officials: They knew the protesters were coming, they prepared for them and they still had trouble.

"We anticipated this this year and we couldn’t stop it," Yingling said.

What I didn’t know, but thanks to a reader do now, is that this pilgrimage is of special import to Chaldeans, who anticipated 5000 of their own attending.