Socialist councilors at the Spanish town of Albanchez de Mágina decoupled the town’s annual celebrations from their Patron saint’s festivities in what politicians and the town’s residents are denouncing as an attack against their Christian faith.
For over four centuries, Albanchez de Mágina, a small agricultural town with roughly 900 residents located in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, holds an annual series of Catholic festivities and events between May 3-6 to honor their Patron, Saint Francis of Paola. Every May 3, the town holds a night-time Procession of the Rosary of the Torches — which precedes the festivities’ main event. On May 4, the town holds a solemn procession to...
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