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Esquipulas holds its patronal festival on January 15, when the largest number of pilgrims come from Guatemala and neighboring Central American countries. [2] The shrine of El Santuario de Chimayó in Chimayo, New Mexico also honors the image. A pending application for Canonical coronation of the image was submitted to the Vatican.
The Programa Pueblos Pintorescos ("Picturesque Towns Program") is an initiative led by Guatemala's Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo, known as INGUAT. [1] The program seeks to promote sustainable tourism development in a network of towns and cities that have been identified for their historical, cultural, and natural attributes.
In Spain, the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores procession with a statue of Our Lady is held on the Viernes de los Dolores (Friday of Sorrows) on the Friday before Palm Sunday, with a fair featuring local cuisine. [7] In Portugal, one of the best-known celebrations is the procession of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady, in Mafra. [8]
" Gloria al Bravo Pueblo" (pronounced [ˈɡloɾja al ˈβɾaβo ˈpweβlo]; lit. ' Glory to the Brave People ' ) is the national anthem of Venezuela . Its lyrics were written by physician and journalist Vicente Salias in 1810, set to music later composed by musician Juan José Landaeta.
The church was promoted to cathedral status by pope Pius XII in 1956 as the seat of the new Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquípulas, whose first prelate Mariano Rossell y Arellano (the senior archbishop of Guatemala) sought to set up a Benedictine monastery attached to the cathedral to care for it - this was founded in 1959 by ...
On Saturday 8 March 1913, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Santa Rosa, destroying its department capital, Cuilapa. [2] Both the initial quake and the after shocks destroyed a lot of private homes, and also the cathedral and the prison, leaving behind significant human losses; similar destruction occurred at Barberena, Cerro Redondo, Llano Grande and El Zapote. [2]
Some of the 24 convents of the Franciscan Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús during the Spanish colony in Guatemala and the approximate area it doctrines occupied. The Catholic faith of the town was in charge of the Franciscans , who had convents and doctrines in the area covered by the modern departaments of Sacatepéquez ...
Guatemala: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. {}: |journal= ignored ; Flores Moreno, Nery Osvaldo; et al. (2010). "Diagnóstico financiero municipal". Diagnóstico socioeconómico: potentialidades productivas y propuestas de inversión. Municipio de San Juan Cotzal, departamento de El Quiché.