The Virgin of sweety

                                                         

                                                        The Virgin of sweety

The month of November is of special significance for the people of Zulia, as during the same are held celebrations in honor of the Chinita (equivalent guajirita Zulia) or Our Lady of Chiquinquirá. It is for this reason that during these days, the bagpipe sounds with particular frenzy and joy throughout the Zulia. Of the many festivals in honor of the Virgin, perhaps the most impressive is the so-called Sunrise Piper, in which the people of Maracaibo is assembled on the morning of day 18 in the plaza of the Basilica, to sing to and Mañanitas Chinita Happy Birthday.

                                      

According to the tradition of Zulia, Maracaibo reached the Chinita the waves of the lake. The story goes that one day in 1749, just a simple woman washing clothes on the shores of Lake Maracaibo, when suddenly he saw floating a thin wooden board, which picked up thinking it might be useful to cover the jar of water that was in the hallway of his house.The next morning, when I was making coffee, she heard a knock as if someone was calling.He went to see what was happening and was overwhelmed with astonishment at seeing the glowing planchette and placed on it, the image of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá. For this reason, the woman began to cry miracle! Miracle, both thus comes the name of Miracle on Lake Avenue today, where the house was of washerwoman.After what happened, many people came to witness the miracle, for it became the home of the humble woman in a place of veneration of the Virgin by many believers.

     

            Laugh when you're, mourn is too easy

                            ...Joselyn...