The neighboring province of Catamarca received faithful from all over the country for the closing of the Marian festivities.
During the followingnoon of this Thursday, December 8, the closing of the festivities in honor of the Pure and Clean Concepción del Valle on the premises of the Adán Quiroga park in the capital city.
According to what was reported by the newspaper El Esquiú, Due to the heat wave, the start of the Solemn Procession was delayed, in a consensual manner with the health authorities. At 5:00 p.m. the animation began and at 5:30 p.m. the concentration of pilgrim delegations and institutions, which passed in front of the Sacred Image, in the eastern sector of the Adán Quiroga Park Oval, for their location according to the assigned number.
At 6:00 p.m. the procession of the registered groups that will honor the Virgin began. Some 80 groups of pilgrims and local institutions registered.
of the celebrations Thousands and thousands of people from Santiago participated who arrived in Catamarca to ask and thank the Virgin.
Throughout the journey there were ten simultaneous relays of those who will carry the sacred images. The Virgen del Valle was carried on a litter by the National Gendarmerie, Federal Police, Gauchos, Civil Defense and Brigade once morest Forest Fires, personnel from the Adán Quiroga Park, Ec Sapem, Municipal Transit, Valle Viejo Urban Guard, Aguas de Catamarca and Police Headquarters from Catamarca. Meanwhile, the image of Blessed Mamerto Esquiú was carried by: Marian Servants, FME Urban Guard, Guardians of the Virgin, FME Gauchos, Communicators Marian Servants, FME Municipal Transit, Volunteer Firefighters, FME Gauchos, Ex-Combatants of Malvinas and Custodians of the Blessed Mamerto Esquiu.
