The president of Canary Islands GovernmentÁngel Víctor Torres, stated this Monday that “many” of the pilgrims who have come to Candelaria They have done it to “thank the virgin” for having recovered “normality” after the covid-19 pandemic.
During his visit to the Marian villa, Torres highlighted the importance of having “as many people as we had in 2019”, a year to which we must go back to see in Candelaria “so many pilgrims celebrating these days, which are older days in the Canary Islands” .
He has abounded that people are approaching Candelaria “with fervor, with pilgrimage, illusion, desire… and without masks, recovering normality.”
Something that “seemed impossible in these three very hard years that we have had”, in which the Canary Islands have suffered “zero tourism, zero economic, pandemic, migratory phenomena, fires, even a volcano on La Palma”, has closed.
