Taganana recovers the tradition that the altar boys of the church of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves carried out in the past. In the capital of Anaga, remembers Luján González, president of La Voz del Valle, the little ones do not play trick or treat halloween holidaybut, as it has been rescued from the past, the altar boys walk the streets of the district head town knocking on the doors of their neighbors while pronouncing this phrase: «Little angels we are, from heaven we come and, with the peace of God, we ask for alms» .
The objective of the children is to raise money to use for the purchase of sweets as compensation for the commitment they assume with the residents of Taganana to fulfill the tradition that marked the 1st and 2nd of November.
Currently, the children are in charge of tolling the bells of the church of Our Lady of the Snows from noon today, November 1 and All Saints’ Day, until midnight, a custom with which the residents of Taganana They remembered their deceased with this particular prayer that they entrusted to the altar boys.
Luján González specifies that this custom has been recovered years ago after some dates in which the tradition was about to be lost.
