The event closes the 52nd National Congress of Hospitality of Spain and the 42nd National Meeting of Young Hospitallers.
Hundreds of people walked the streets of downtown León this Saturday with their torches lit to imitate the procession that takes place every day at the Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, known as the “Torchlight Procession.”
The procession, which left at 7 p.m. from the Cathedral of León, was followed by a Eucharist which took place in the first diocesan temple and which served as the closing ceremony of the 52nd National Congress of Hospitality of Spain and the 42nd National Meeting of Young Hospitalists. , which have been celebrated since Friday in the diocese of León for the second time in its history, since the first in the 1980s.
The two events brought together more than 300 people from hospitals across Spain for two days in the Leonese capital under the motto “Mary, light of hope for the journey” and represent a foretaste of the upcoming Jubilee 2025.
The event, which lasted two days, was marked by lectures by priest and professor José Román Flecha; priest Mauricio Elías, Spanish-speaking chaplain of Lourdes; priest José Luis Méndez, specialist in Pastoral Health; the Spanish language coordinator of the Sanctuary of Lourdes, Lluis Ruiz Brisch; the rector of the Sanctuary of Lourdes, Father Michel Daubanes, and the diocesan priest and delegate for Missionary Evangelization, Jesús Miguel Martín. Likewise, a gymkhana was carried out in different neighborhoods of the city, inspired by León’s references to Marian devotion.
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