This Thursday, the pilgrim image of the Virgen de los Desamparados began its journey through the municipalities of Valencia affected by DANA, a month after the flood. The image moved on Thursday through Paiporta, Picanya and Torrent, integrated into the XII Archpriest “Mare de Déu del Popul”.
As the archdiocese indicates in a press release, after visiting the parish of La Inmaculada de Paiporta, the Virgin left for the parish of San Ramón, where the Rosary and a supplication for the deceased were recited.
This Friday, after a farewell mass in Paiporta at 12:00 p.m., the tour of the Virgin through the streets with the “Maremóvil” will leave at 2:45 p.m. for Picanya, where it will tour the municipality. The virgin will then head towards Torrent and subsequently the image will be carried, either on the shoulders or in the Maremóvil, to the esplanade of the Fuente San Luis, where another moment of prayer will also take place and of memory of the deceased.
Then the Mare de Déu will be transported to the Maremóvil through the polygon to the Xenillet bridge, with prayer and remembrance of the deceased, then it will be taken to the parish of Buen Consejo, where the farewell mass of the visit will take place . celebrated around 8:00 p.m.
The images of the Virgin being transported through the communes of DANA have been commented on online by several users.
The image is “available” for “other requests”
The Vicar of Evangelization of the Archdiocese of Valencia and rector of the Basilica of the Virgin of the Abandoned, Melchor Seguí, explained that, from the first days after the disaster, “requests began to arrive, not only through the social networks, but directly to the entities of the Basilica, people from the affected areas who request the visit and the presence of the Virgin.
“It is a very special and very moving visit, one month after the DANA, precisely in the most devastated area and where the most suffered,” underlined Seguí, who added that the image de la Mare de Déu “is available and everything is also prepared from the Basilica, in case there are new requests.
