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It is to commemorate their wanderings that you make your Pasada . '' When the priest had finished the story the people all marched away carrying their candles and singing . Each night they marched and sang in this way until at last it was Christmas Eve . Doña Teresa and the twins went to bed early that night because there was to be high mass in the little chapel at midnight . Doña Teresa slept with one eye open , fearing she might be late , and a few minutes before twelve she was up again . She washed the Twins ' faces to wake them , and then they all three walked in the starlight to the little chapel near the Big House . The altar was blazing with lights , and the floor was covered with the dark figures of kneeling men and women , as the mother and children went in out of the darkness and found a place for themselves in a corner near the door .