Feast of the Virgen Del Pino What day is celebrated?

September 8 is the special day on which the feast of the Virgen Del Pino is celebrated and it must be taken into account that she is a very dear virgin for Gran Canaria. For more than 500 years, she has been the repository of hopes, desires and aids, in a Marian translation, which they have lived generation, after generation of Canaries.

Patron of the Diocese of the Canary Islands and which gives rise to one of the most important festivals of the Canaries in general and Teror in particular, paying honors to the Virgen Del Pino in a tradition so ingrained throughout history, which could even be said to transcend the religious.

The virgen del pino was declared holy, officially in 1905 and later, in 1915 it would be named after Pope Pius X himself, patron saint of the Diocese of the Canary Islands.

But the first information that is known, can be dated 1481 and is that it could be an Aboriginal sanctuary, the origin of devotion around pine. The festival has its origins in the sixteenth century. On this date there is a transfer of The Virgin to las palmas of Gran Canaria. It is believed that he was motivated to beg him for the lack of precipitation and water scarcity.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, pilgrimages began to become more numerous, reaching such an extent, of prohibiting the influx of people and especially women, who had denied, their access to the main chapel. In the current tradition, on the night of September 7th to 8th, you walk to Teror, to see the virgen del pino.

The Feasts of the Virgen Del Pino has a special moment, when the Virgin is lowered from her Camarín, and that she can feel closer to all people, pilgrims and locals, and take the opportunity to ask her and thank her for favors and prayers.

Of course the consequent pilgrimage and offering to the Virgen Del Pino, is undoubtedly one of the most majority acts and that brings together more people around Our Lady, something that has been produced since 1952.

The pilgrimage has its beginning on September 7 from the Castañero Gordo, to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pine itself in a mass representation of all the Canary islands and municipalities. It has only been suspended throughout its history twice.

The first dates back to 1851, when, because of cholera, and the great famine that ravaged the islands, it was decided to delay to 9 November of the same year, to avoid contagion, in view of making the situation better. The last one was in 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic, already known and suffered by all.

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