The residents of the town of Muñique celebrated the festival of their patron saint, Our Lady of Fatima, this Monday, a traditional festival that began at 6:00 p.m.
The celebration of the Eucharist was presided over by the parish priest of Tiagua, Rafael Tejera Parrilla, while it was enlivened by the songs of the parish choir directed by the neighbor Vanessa Rijo. The voices of the parishioners who filled the capacity of the hermitage also joined them.
Once the Eucharist was finished, the image of Our Lady of Fatima was carried on the shoulders of the town's residents and went out in procession along its main road. On such a special day, there was also a moment for some historical data. Specifically, the one that collects what happened on Sunday, May 13, 1917, when two girls and a boy, Lucía, Jacinta and Francisco, went to shepherd their sheep in a place known as 'Cova de Iría', near their town of Fatima, in Portugal. Moment in which around noon the Virgin appeared to them, formally known as Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima.
