SAN ANTONIO: Final yr’s fiesta in La Ermita, Villajoyosa
Photograph credit score: Villajoyosa city corridor
Animals are blessed all through Spain on or close to January 17, in honour of San Antonio, in all probability extra acquainted to English-speakers as St Anthony the Abbot.
San Antonio got here from Egypt andv in keeping with legend gave away all of his belongings to the poor and spent lengthy durations within the desert. Right here he was supposedly accompanied solely by animals and is now thought to be their patron saint.
Initially the blessing centred on cattle however the customized has now been prolonged to pets and, as common, house owners might be taking them to their native church.
That features Villajoyosa though there might be a double celebration on January 20 and 21 within the Ermita neighbourhood because the church on this outlying district is devoted to San Antonio.
A spotlight of the fiestas begins at 1pm on January 21 with a procession of horse or donkey-drawn carriages and carts by means of the native streets, whereas these collaborating give out conventional anise-flavoured Rollets de Sant Antoni pastries to the general public.
The procession ended, there might be scorching chocolate supplied by the Villajoyosa chocolatier Valor with equally conventional pumpkin fritters on sale.
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