a church of Canary Islandsspecifically from the town of Los Realejos, north of Tenerifewas the scene in which a man, carrying a child on his shoulders, burst into the premises running like a man possessed, to deposit the minor on the altar where the image of the Virgen del Carmen is located.
To the astonishment of locals and strangers, the man at breakneck speed interrupted the mass of the Eighth of Carmen in the Sanctuarysimply to raise the little one and leave it on the pedestal.
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In an act of devotion to the Virgin or temporary mental alienation, once he leaves the child in front of the image of the virgin, he leaves the church under his own power before the stunned gaze of those present, who cannot believe what they have just witnessed.
After this, he returns for the child and after making the sign of the cross, he stops in the middle of the church excited and with the little one in his arms.