Nearly 4 million Venezuelans participated in this year’s La Divina Pastora (“Divine Shepherdess”) Catholic procession in the city of Barquisimeto, Lara, the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported on Thursday.
For over 160 years, Venezuelan Catholics have gathered in Barquisimeto every January 14 for the annual Marian procession of the Divine Shepherdess, Lara’s matron saint. Faithful from all over the country gather in Barquisimeto that day to accompany the procession across the streets of the city and ask for or thank her for her intercession before God on a four-mile walk from the Shrine of St. Rosa to the Cathedral of Barquisimeto. The…
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