Cheshire residents held a luminary ceremony Sunday in honor of a family killed in a home invasion last summer.

The remembrance ceremony for the Petit family, called the “Lights of Hope Remembrance,” was due to take place Dec. 16. It was postponed because of a snowstorm.

Cheshire lit more than 130,000 luminaries in honor of the Petit women, who were killed last July in a crime that shook the state.

Aerial views of the town observed luminaries spelling out the words "hope," and in also held in the shape of a large heart.

Police said two paroled convicts who met in a halfway house took the Petit family hostage in the early hours of July 23, killing 48-year-old Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. The lone survivor, Dr. William Petit Jr., was severely beaten but escaped.

Money raised from Sunday’s event will go to the Haley’s Hope & Michaela’s Miracle, a fund set up to fight multiple sclerosis.